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LESSONS IN PSYCHOLOGY 
FOR THE YOUNG > 

A PLAIN TREATMENT OF THE GREAT 
ESSENTIALS OF PSYCHOLOGY 

BY 

FLORENCE CONSTANCE BEERS 


“Consider what I say; and the 
Lord give thee understanding in 
all things.” 2 Tim. 2:7 


NEW YORK 

THE VAIL-BALLOU COMPANY 




Copyright, 1920 

By Florence Constance Beers 


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PREFACE 

TO MOTHERS AND TEACHERS 

It is with a feeling of deepest gratitude 
toward my instructor, and an earnest desire 
that the seeds of divine truth herein contained, 
may be implanted in the prolific soil of the child 
mind, that I have compiled this series of lessons 
in Elementary Metaphysics. 

When, but a child myself, these great truths 
were impressed upon my mind through the 
teaching of Rev. De Witt Talmage Van Doren 
of Norwalk, Conn. Dr. Van Doren is the first 
minister in America to introduce into the ortho¬ 
dox church the Metaphysical and Psychological 
teaching. For twenty years, this church (The 
First Baptist Church of Norwalk, Conn.) has 
steadfastly stood for the broader and nobler 
interpretation of Christ’s ministry. 

It is from this teaching, and through this 
instrumentality, that the truths contained in 
this elementary lesson series have originated. 

Mothers, who are interested in the so called, 
“New Thought,” and who desire to instruct 
their little ones, need entertain no fear of mis- 
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PREFACE 


leading them by following this series. These 
lessons have been taught to children of all 
grades of intelligence, and with marked success. 
The manifest interest of the child, in every case, 
only proved to the teacher how hungry the child 
mind is for truth. 

A teacher, loving these truths, and having the 
interest of the child at heart, will find no greater 
benediction in life than the privilege of guiding 
the child mind in the great realm of spiritual 
unfoldment. 

I have endeavored to present one funda¬ 
mental truth in each lesson, and would advise 
the instructor to refrain from taking up the 
study of another lesson, until each principle is 
thoroughly understood. 

Each lesson requires thoughtful preparation 
upon the part of the teacher. While I have en¬ 
deavored to make them as simple as possible, 
much will depend upon the teacher’s originality 
in selecting her illustrations; and also, he or 
she will do well to appeal to the child’s sense of 
humor at times. Children remember illustra¬ 
tions that are humorous. 

If the Mother or Teacher is rewarded by the 
consciousness that the little ones, under her 
care, have a growing sense of the Infinite Pres¬ 
ence; of their relationship to the Great First 
Cause; of the perfect harmony of the laws gov- 


PREFACE 


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erning the Universe; and of the only, real joy in 
the world, that of service; then, this little series 
will have fulfilled its mission. 

My prayer is, that you may feel your great 
privilege and responsibility, and humbly strive 
to be a worthy channel for divine service. 

Wishing you the greatest success, 

Your friend, and fellow worker, 
Florence Constance Beers. 






























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CONTENTS 


Lesson Page 

1 God.9 

2 Man’s Relation to God.14 

3 Life : Its Four Kingdoms.17 

4 Mind: Instinctive—Intellectual—Spiritual . 23 

5 Thought.28 

6 Mind and Electricity.32 

7 Mind: Objective and Subjective.36 

8 Mind and Matter.41 

9 Matter and Form.45 

10 Spirit and Its Instruments.50 

11 Mind and Its Instruments.55 

12 Law .59 

13 God’s Representative—Man .64 

14 Cause and Effect.68 

15 Evil .73 

16 Creative Power .78 

17 Nature’s Five Elements.82 

18 Involution and Evolution.88 

19 The Law of Expression.93 

20 God’s Relation to His Creations.97 

21 The Reality of the Senses.101 

22 Experience: Its Meaning.106 

23 Mental Atmosphere.110 

24 Cosmic Urge: Desire.115 

25 Practical Use of the Subjective Mind . . . 119 






















LESSON NO. 1 


GOD 

Question No. 1. What is God? 

Accept all answers, and thus inform yourself 
of the child ’s conception. 

Blackboard: 

God is spirit 

Spirit can be defined only, 
as First Cause. Creator 
of All. 

God is Law. 

God is Mind. 

God is Life. 

God is Action. 

Nature .—Consult Bible Concordance for 
Scriptural texts of these attributes; not neces¬ 
sarily during lesson period. 

God is Love. 

God is Good. 

God is Wisdom. 

God is All. 

Impress the Nature of God upon the child 
mind thoroughly. Taking plenty of time. 
Question No. 2. Where is God? 

Again, accept all answers. 


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Blackboard: 

God is Everywhere. 

God is in the trees. 

God is in the grass. 

God is in the flowers. 

God is in the rocks. 

Place. Consult Concordance. 

God is in the air. 

God is in the birds. 

God is in the animals. 

God is in—You. 

God is in—Me. 

God is all and in all. 

Take infinite pains to make the child feel the 
immediate presence of God. How? By ex¬ 
plaining, that: Each attribute is found in God’§ 
Universe. 

Thus: 

Spirit is everywhere. 

God is everywhere. 

Life is everywhere. 

Action is everywhere. 

Love is everywhere. 

Attraction of atoms is everywhere. Etc. 
Take the attribute “Life,” for example. 
Explain a Unit. A perfect whole, composed 
of its parts. Always use a circle as a perfect 
symbol of any attribute. Explain why you do 
so. 


GOD 


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Blackboard: 

Draw a circle; write the word Life, in its 
center. 

Remarks to Class. 

Ques. How do yon 
know when anything is 
alive? Ans. Because 
it moves. 

Yes, because you see 
it move; active things 
are alive, are they not? 

Then anything that is alive has action, hasn’t 
it? or anything that has action is alive. 

Well everything is alive, did you know that? 
Everything is continually moving. The grass, 
the trees, the flowers, the birds, the air, the 
chairs and the tables. 

You did not know that the chairs and the 
tables were alive, did you? 

Explain the law of Vibration, thus: 

Place a table before the Class. 

Explain an Atom. An atom of matter is 
composed of Electrons. Electrons are bits of 
electric force. Proceed thus: Every little atom 
or particle of this table is moving. The^ are 
moving very, very fast indeed. (Illustrate 
motion with the hands.) As each little atom 
spins ’round and ’round, it gathers or attracts 
more atoms, moving just as fast, and they all 



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cling together, and that is what makes your 
table. Lots and lots of little particles clinging 
together, and always moving very, very rapidly. 
So fast that we cannot see them, but if we had 
a very fine instrument, we might be able to see 
them. 

Now, if the atoms should stop moving, what 
do you suppose would happen? Why! every 
little atom would fall away from the others, 
and the table would drop all to pieces . 

Explain why water will remain in a pail 
while being violently swung around, if the mo¬ 
tion is rapid enough. Ask the boys if they have 
ever tried it. Take other examples of the law 
of Vibration, until each child sees that in every¬ 
thing there is action, and life. 

Explain how leaves, after falling from the 
trees, change into mineral and vegetable life, 
so that the idea of death will be entirely eradi¬ 
cated from the mind. The thought, the fact of 
life, must be thoroughly understood. Change 
of form must be impressed upon the child mind. 
(An entire lesson will be devoted to this sub¬ 
ject.) 

Blackboard: 

Pface, side by side, the Biblical statement and 
the statement of physical science. Thus: 

Bible: God is All in All. God is Life. 

Science: Life is All—Action. Everything 
is in a state of vibration. 


GOD 


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Golden Text: “God is Spirit; and they that 
worship him must worship him in spirit and in 
truth.”—John 4:24. 


LESSON NO. 2 
man's relation to god 


Briefly review Lesson No. 1, thus: 

1. What is God?—Ask each child for an at¬ 
tribute. 

2. Where is God?—Ask each child where He 
is. 

Ques. What is a good symbol of perfection? 
Ans. A circle. 

Ques. Why? Ans. Because it is perfect. 

Proceed to take each of the attributes of God, 
or several of them, and prove God’s omnipres¬ 
ence. 

Ques. Hid God make everything and every¬ 
body? Ans. Yes. 

Well then, God is in everything and every¬ 
body. Is that so? 

Explanation: You boys, when you make a 
kite, say: 44 That’s mine, I made it.” Then 
some of you is in the kite, isn’t there? 

To the girls: 

How do you girls feel when you make a dress 
or a hat, for your little doll? Do you put your 
work and your ideas into it? Isn’t part of you 
in it, then? Yes, well, God put His ideas and 

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MAN’S KELATION TO GOD 15 

His work into everything, so He is in every¬ 
thing. 

Blackboard: 

This circle represents God. 

Explain to Class that each child, present, is a 
part of the circle; a part of God. 

Write name or initial 
of each, in the spaces re¬ 
spectively. 

Point out, that each 
part helps to make the 
whole, by erasing one of 
its parts, and thus de¬ 
monstrating its incom¬ 
pleteness. 

Change the symbol¬ 
ism of the circle by erasing the word God, and 
by substituting the words Life, Action, Spirit, 
Love, etc., respectively. Treat each, in the 
same manner. After each example, have the 
Class repeat an affirmation pertaining to each. 

For example: No. 1.—“I am a part of God.” 
“I am God’s child,” etc. 

For example: No. 2.—“My life is a part of 
God’s life.” “God’s life flows through me 
every moment.” “I cannot live, apart from 
God.” Continue this exercise until the chil¬ 
dren understand the relation of the part to the 



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whole. Use the hand and the fingers for an 
example. This is an excellent symbol. The re¬ 
lation of the fingers to the palm. The same 
blood flowing through each, furnishes a good 
illustration of the Life of God, flowing through 
each of His children. 

Another example: Take the number ten (10). 
Ask the Class how many parts there are to the 
number 10. Ans. 1-2-3-4-5-6-7-8-9-10. Each 
is a part of the whole. 

Ques . Would the number 10 be perfect, if I 
erased 5 or 3 or 6? Ans. No. 

Each part helps to make the number complete. 
Explain how each one of God’s children are 
necessary to make God’s world complete. En¬ 
large upon this thought. 

Examples for use: An apple, a Class, the 
human body, the vine and its branches, etc. 


Golden Text: “1 am the vine, ye are the 
branches; He that abideth in me, and I in him, 
the same bringeth forth much fruit: for without 
me ye can do nothing.”—John 15: 5. 



LESSON NO. 3 


life: its four kingdoms 

First, remind the Class that God is Life. 

Recall the fact that Life is a Unit. Unit, one 
perfect whole. Illustrate thus: 

Question No. 1. Who knows where light 
comes from! Ans. From the sun. 

Yes, from the sun. 

Ques. Does all light come from the sun! 
Ans. Yes. Question No. 2. Name the differ¬ 
ent kinds of light, from the smallest to the great¬ 
est; from the dimmest to the brightest. Ans. 
Candle light, lamp, gas, electric, moonlight, and 
sunlight; etc. (Recall and explain how the 
greatest artificial light has evolved from the 
tallow-dip. Encourage the children to he sys¬ 
tematic in their thinking.) Continue: You see, 
all these come from the one source of light. 
Each one gives forth some light. 

Question No. 3. Now, what is the difference 
between them! Ans. The difference is in the 
degree of light—some give more than others, 
and some, less. 

That’s it; but each one shines the very best it 
can, and gives forth God’s light. Remark here, 

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that no matter how small one is, he can do his 
very best to shine. This is a good place to 
refer to the text: “Let your light shine/’ To 
make the comparison between the source of 
Light, and that of Life, proceed thus: 

Question No. 1. Does anyone remember how 
we know that everything is alive? Ans. Be¬ 
cause everything is moving, vibrating. Living 
things are divided into Four Kingdoms. 

Illustrate on Blackboard. Make use of the 
circle again. 

Ques. What are Min¬ 
erals? Name some. 
Ans. Salt, iron, brass, 
copper, coal, etc. Yes; 
We find life in each 
one, do we not? Ques . 
How do you know? 
Ans. Because Life is 
in everything. Yes, one 
little mineral atom clings to another, etc. 

Remark: These little atoms move so rapidly 
that they attract others like them, and so we 
have coal atoms, copper atoms, etc. 

Question No. 2. Who remembers what the 
second Kingdom of life is? Ans. Vegetable. 
Yes; All of us know what vegetables are. Name 
some. (Do not allow one or two of the children 
to do all of the talking. Ask each child to name 
a vegetable.) 






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We found that the vegetable had in it a little 
higher life element, than the mineral, did we 
not? Just as we found that the electric light 
was a little brighter and finer than the gas light. 

Ques. We know that vegetables grow out of 
what ? Ans. The ground. Ques. Then, what 
do vegetables feed on—what makes them grow? 
Ans. Mineral life. What minerals are in the 
vegetables, potatoes, lettuce, corn, etc. (The 
teacher must inform himself or herself.) 

Then we find, that the vegetable life includes 
the mineral life, also. The higher always in¬ 
cludes the lower. Give examples: The number 
5 includes 1-2-3-4, etc. 

Question No. 3. What is the third kingdom? 
Ans. The Animal Kingdom. Ques. Who can 
name an animal? (Give each child an oppor¬ 
tunity.) 

We find still higher life in the animal. Ques. 
What do animals live on? Ans. Minerals and 
vegetables, and sometimes on other animals. 

You see again, how we have to have the lower 
life to build the higher? 

Illustrate this truth, thus: Explain how an 
automobile, in order to go rapidly, must start in 
low-gear, then second, and finally, in high-gear. 
Show the Class that the car never could go 
rapidly unless it had started slowly. Ask the 
children if one could “start up” on high-gear. 


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Point out to them that the slow revolution of 
the wheels are included in the rapid revolutions. 
Make plain the law and order of things through¬ 
out the universe of God. First low and then, 
high; first slow, and then fast; first small, and 
then great, etc. 

Ques. What is the highest Kingdom. Ans. 
The Human. 

We belong to this kingdom, do we not? We 
express the highest life in the world. 

Ques . Why? Ans. Because we are in 
God’s Image. 

Now, because we express the highest life in 
the world, we have control over all of the lower 
Kingdoms, do we not? Ans . Yes. 

Ques? Why? Ans. Because the higher 
can control and use the lower. God gave 
human beings dominion over all lower things. 

Ques. What keeps our bodies alive? What 
do we eat? Ans. Minerals, vegetables, and 
animals. 

Ques. What keeps our spirits alive. Ans. 
God’s spirit; God’s life. 

Ques. Where is God’s life? Ans. Every¬ 
where. Ques. We cannot feed spirits with 
minerals and vegetable food, can we? Ans. 
No. 

Well, then, Our spirit must have spirit food. 


LIFE: ITS FOUR KINGDOMS 21 


Ques. Where do we learn about God? Ans. 
In Sunday School and Church. Ques. Do we 
feel better after we have been to church; do we 
feel more loving and more kind; and do we try 
to love everybody, as God loves us? Then it is 
spiritual food, isn’t it, that we come for? 

The deathlessness of the life principle, of the 
lower kingdoms, and the change of form, will be 
presented in another lesson. 

Impress upon the Class the fact of the unity 
of life, manifested in the dependence of one 
kingdom upon the other. The importance of 
each. This is a great truth, and is typical of 
the unity of one individual with all others, and 
also, the dependence of each upon every other, 
in the human kingdom. Make this clear. 

Explain how there could be no Class, without 
each member. 

The Mind Principle in each Kingdom will be 
presented in Lesson No. 4. 

Final Summary: 

Life as a Unit. 

Life in its degrees of manifestation. 

Life in the dependence of one Kingdom 
upon the other. 

Life finally, in its utter dependence, as a 
whole, upon God, the Creator , and 
Giver of All Life—The Perfect Unit. 


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Golden text: “And God saw everything that 
He had made, a/nd, behold, it was very good.” 
—Gen. 1:31. 


LESSON NO. 4. 


mind: instinctive INTELLECTUAL — 

SPIRITUAL 

Ques. Does anyone remember what the les¬ 
son was about, last Sunday? Ans. The Four 
Kingdoms of Life. 

Ques. Name them. Ans. Mineral, Vegeta¬ 
ble, Animal, and Human. 

Ques. We found that each of these King¬ 
doms was alive, did we not? Ans. Yes. 

Ques. Is there any dead thing anywheref 
Ans. No. 

Now, as we found life in each of the King¬ 
doms, we shall also see that there is Mind in 
each. Wherever we find life, we find mind 
also; so as life is everywhere , mind must be 
everywhere also. 

Ques. What is Mind? Ans. Thought. 

Yes; you are using your mind now, aren’t 
you? You are thinking. Remember that you 
are a spirit. That your spirit is a part of 
God’s spirit. You (spirit) use mind; Mind is 
one of your tools. It is you that thinks. You 
say y “I think.” (Make this very clear, and a 
little farther on you will find an entire lesson 
devoted to Spirit and its Instruments.) 

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You remember that God is Spirit, and that 
each one of His children is spirit, also. (Write 
initials of children in 
spaces of circle.) We 
find mind in the little 
mineral atoms (coal, 
iron, brass, etc.). You 
notice that the little 
I atoms that make coal 
or iron do not get; 
mixed up with each 
other, nor do they get 
mixed with the gold 



and copper atoms. 

Ques. Who remembers what an atom is? 
Arts. An atom is made of Electrons. 

Ques. Yes; but what are Electrons? Ans. 
Little tiny bits of Electric force. 

Yes; that is why we call them Electrons. You 
see, it sounds like Electricity. Electrons are 
tiny bits of electricity. 


Blackboard: 

Ques. Now, why do you suppose these tiny 
coal atoms do not get mixed with the gold 
atoms? Ans. Because the gold atoms are at¬ 
tracted to the other gold atoms, and the coal to 
the coal atoms, etc. They each know which is 
which, and they like to stay with the atoms that 
are most like themselves. The little brass 


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MIND 


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atoms play together; likewise the coal, the cop¬ 
per, the iron, etc. They have just enough mind 
to know which they like best. You always 
know which little boys and girls you like best to 
play with, do you not? Well, that is the same 
way with these tiny atoms. It would be funny, 
if they all got mixed up, wouldn’t it ? 

Ques. What would happen then? Ans. 
Why! we would have gold, and brass, coal, iron 
and copper, all mixed together. 

We call this little mind, in the minerals, 
Chemical Affinity. Each little atom goes where 
it wants to go; and where it is attracted or 
pulled. 

Now, we come to the Vegetable Kingdom; A 
vegetable knows a little more than a mineral, 
because it has a little higher life, and therefore 
a little more mind. 

Ques. Who knows what Lima Beans will do, 







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if yon put a pole in the ground right where they 
are planted? Ans. Climb the pole! 

Yes; don’t you think that is pretty clever; and 
shows you how much mind the vegetable has ? 

Ques. Could coal, or iron, or brass climb a 
pole? Ans. No. It does not know enough to 
do that. 

So you see, the Vegetable knows more than 
the mineral. They both have mind, but one, 
more than the other. 

Ques. Now what Kingdom do we come to? 
Ans. The Animal. 

Yes; now animals are very clever indeed. 

Ques. Tell me some of the things your little 
dog will do, or the little kitten that you have at 
home. What will birds, horses, cows, do? 
(Give the child plenty of time to recall the 
actions of their pets.) 

You see how much more a cat knows than a 
Lima Bean? Ques. If you call your kitten 
would it come? Ans. Yes. Ques. If you 
should call a Lima Bean, would it come? Ans. 
No. 

You might call it all day, but it never would 
come. 

Ques. Why? Ans . It doesn’t know 
enough. It has not as much mind. 

(Give other examples to compare difference in 
degree of mind, between the vegetable and the 


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animal. Prove that the animal is almost intelli¬ 
gent, oftentimes seeming to use reason .) 

Ques. Now, we come to the highest Kingdom, 
who knows what it is? Ans. The Human. 

We are people aren’t we? Human beings. 

Ques. Do you know any more than a potato? 
Any more than a cat or a horse? Could a cat 
sit here, on one of these chairs, and tell me how 
much 2 plus 2 is? Could a horse or a chicken 
add a column of figures? Ans. No. 

Ques. Why*? Ans. Because they haven’t 
enough mind. 

(Do not take the time to define Intellect in 
this lesson, it will be presented in Lesson No. 5.) 

We are God’s children, made in His Image, 
so we think with His mind, and we study, and 
every day grow more and more, like Him. 
(Speak here of Man’s dominion, because of his 
birthright, over the lower Kingdoms.) Now, 
we find, that human beings are the highest and 
so they include all the lower part of mind, too. 
Remember, the higher always includes the 
lower. We have instinctive Mind, Intellect, 
and Spiritual Mind. Next Sunday we shall find 
out all about these different kinds of Mind. 


Golden text: “For God hath not given us the 
spirit of fear: but of power, and of love, and 
of a sound mind .”— II. Tim. 1:7. 



LESSON NO. 5 


THOUGHT 



Thought is an exercise of the Mind. 

Thought is the mind 


in action. 


We know that every¬ 
thing is continually 


moving. 


Thought is mind in 
motion. 


In the last lesson, we 
discovered that Mind, as 
well as Life, is in every¬ 
thing. We must not 


forget that God is everywhere, and that God is 
Mind , and Life, etc. 

Today, we are going to learn what thought is, 
on the planes of Instinctive Mind, Intellect, and 
Spiritual Mind. We all think, every minute, 
do we not? Well, every thought that we think, 
belongs to one of these three classes. It is 
either Instinctive, Intellectual or Spiritual. 

Ques. How can you tell what an Instinctive 
thought is ? Ans. It is an animal thought, like, 
“lam hungry”; “I want this or that,” etc. A 


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THOUGHT 


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thought of hate, of envy, of jealousy, of fear, or 
of anger; these are Instinctive thoughts, too. 
The desire to fight, as the animals do, all the 
desires, emotions and feelings that belong to 
the lower animals, belong to the plane of the 
Instinctive Mind. (Illustrate.) 

Example: Address Class: 

“Suppose you were thinking now, “I want 
my dinner, I wish the teacher would stop 
talking . 9 9 

Ques. What kind of a thought is that? Ans. 
Instinctive. 

Ques. Why? Ans. Because it is animal 
and it is selfish, too. 

It isn’t wrong to be hungry, but it is wrong 
to want to run away from Sunday School, when 
you can wait a little while, just because you are 
hungry. 

Ques. How can you tell what an Intellectual 
thought is? Ans. By Reason. Illustrate 
thus: 

Ques. Suppose I told you that I had swal¬ 
lowed an elephant, would you believe me? 
Ans. No. 

Ques. Why not ? Ans. Because there is no 
reason in it; it is not reasonable, is it? There 
is no sense in it. You do not believe things that 
are not sensible , do you? Ans. No; God gave 
you reason to use. 


30 PSYCHOLOGY FOR THE YOUNG 


Ques. What is Intellect, then? Ans. Rea¬ 
son, analysis, thought. 

Ques. What does it mean to analyze any¬ 
thing? Ans. Take it all to pieces and examine 
every part. That is what we do when we rea¬ 
son anything out. 

Now, we will suppose that after that little 
selfish thought, you changed it to an Intellectual 
thought; a thought with reason in it, like this: 
4 ‘Well, I guess I can wait for my dinner; I’m not 
an animal.” This is an intellectual thought. 

Ques. Why? Ans. Because you use your 
reason. 

Now, if you were a real animal you would 
not stop to reason, but rush out the door for 
your dinner, or else, start to eat up some one 
in the class. 

Now, we see what an Instinctive thought, and 
an Intellectual thought is. 

Ques. What is a Spiritual thought? Ans. 
A thought about God; or a thought that has 
love in it. 

Ques. Can you name one? Ans. “I am 
God’s perfect child.” “I love all of God’s 
children. ’ ’ 

If you wanted to change that Intellectual 
thought to a Spiritual thought, you would say: 
41 It is not very kind of me to want to run home 
to dinner, when we are having such a nice les- 


THOUGHT 


31 


son. My teacher loves me, and I really love 
her.” You see, this is a loving thought and is 
even higher than the Intellectual thought. It 
is a spiritual thought. 

Ho you notice how you think all these differ¬ 
ent kinds of thought, and that it only takes a 
minute or two? First one, and then another? 

Ques. Now let me see if you can give me an 
Instinctive thought? Ans. “I want all of 
that candy, myself”; “I don’t want to help 
mother ”; ‘ ‘ That’s my sled, you leave it alone,’ ’ 
etc. 

Ques. Give me an intelligent thought. Ans. 
“It looks as though it might storm, tomor¬ 
row”; “That house is very well built,” etc. 

Ques. Now, name a Spiritual thought. 
Ans. “I am God’s child, I will think no evil”; 
“I think I’ll help mother, today,” etc. 

Take pains to impress the nature of each 
thought upon the child mind. Give examples of 
thought, and ask to what class they belong. 
Point out again, that all of these thoughts are 
the action of one mind principle, but different 
degrees. Recall the illustration of Light, and 
its degrees. 


Golden Text: (i And he renewed in the spirit 
of your mind.” — Eph. 4:23. 



LESSON NO. 6 


MIND AND ELECTRICITY 

Ques. Who knows what electricity is ? Gan 
you see it? Ans. No. 

Ques . How do you know that there is any 
such thing? Ans. Because I see electric light, 
electric flat-irons, electric cars, motors, etc. 

Ques. Is electricity very powerful? Ans. 
Yes, very. 

Think how powerful it is, to draw a long train 
of cars full of people, etc. 

Ques. Who discovered electricity? Ans. 
Benj. Franklin. 

Ques. How? 

Ques. Is the air full of electricity, now? 
Aus. Yes. 

Ques. Do you know the name of the man who 
made electric lights, phonographs, moving-pic¬ 
tures, etc? Ans. Thomas Edison. 

Ques. Did you ever make mud-pies? Ans. 
Yes. 

Well, you took the mud and formed pies, 
cakes, and bread, didn’t you? Now, this great 
man, Edison, takes Electricity and makes light, 
heat, music, talking-machines, etc. 

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MIND AND ELECTRICITY 33 

Ques. Did you use your mind, when you 
made the mud-pies ? Ans. Yes. 

Of course, else you could not have made them. 
This great man thinks very hard, when he is 
making all of these different things out of Elec¬ 
tricity. Don’t you see, then, that mind is big¬ 
ger and stronger than electricity? We know 
how very strong Electricity is, and how very 
fast it travels on a wire; but just the minute my 
mind thinks of the moon, it is there, quick as a 
flash! Just the instant I say, Europe, I am 
there, in my mind. See, how powerful and 
quick , thought is! (Impress the power and 
speed of thought upon the mind of the child.) 
Now, just imagine, that every thought you 
direct toward anything or anyone travels along 
a little wire, quick as a flash. There is really 
no wire, but there are little currents of air that 
carry your thought, and we call them Etheric 
waves. You have all heard of messages sent 
by wireless, haven’t you ? Well, these messages 
travel along these Etheric waves, until they 
reach their destination. When I direct my 
thought toward James, it reaches him immedi¬ 
ately. Now, there are two kinds of thought. 
One kind makes you feel good; and the other 
kind makes you feel bad. The good thoughts, 
we call con-structive; the bad thoughts we call 
de-structive. 


34 PSYCHOLOGY FOR THE YOUNG 


Ques. Ho you know what a construction is? 
Ans. Something that has been built up; like a 
house, a church, a build¬ 
ing; or anything. 

That’s what good 
thoughts do; build you 
up! They are God’s 
thoughts. 

Ques . Name some. 
Ans. “What a lovely 
day this is.” “Isn’t 
Alice’s dress becom¬ 
ing, ’ ’ etc. 

Ques. These thoughts make you feel, how? 
Ans. Good. 

Yes; and they make other people feel good, 
too. 

Ques. Ho you know what it means to destroy 
anything? Ans. To tear down; like a building 
destroyed by fire. That is what bad thoughts 
do; tear you down, make you sick. These are 
not God’s thoughts, but they are little animal 
thoughts. 

Ques. Name some. Ans. “ I don’t like that 
girl”; “I’m tired of everything,” etc. 

Ques. How do you feel after that kind of 
thinking? Ans. Unhappy, mean. 

You see, whenever we forget to think God’s 
thoughts, how miserable we are? Hon’t forget 




MIND AND ELECTRICITY 


35 


that these thoughts are very powerful; stronger 
than electricity. We know how electricity will 
give a beautiful light; run a train of oars, etc; 
but, we also know, that it will strike a man dead, 
instantly, too. You see, it works for good and 
bad, both. Your thoughts will do that, too. 
(Illustrate this fact thoroughly.) 

Let us make up our minds this minute, to 
send out only good thoughts, on these little 
mental wires, or Etheric waves. 


Golden text: Finally brethren, whatsoever 
things are true, whatsoever things are honest, 
whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things 
are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatso¬ 
ever things are of good report, if there be any 
virtue, and if there be any praise, think on these 
things. Phil. 4:8. 



LESSON NO. 7 


MIND*. OBJECTIVE AND SUBJECTIVE 

Last week we learned that thought is a force , 
like electricity; only it is very much stronger . 
You remember, we decided to think only good 
thoughts. We do not want to injure anyone 
with this thought-force, and good thoughts will 
do them good. 

Ques. How many of us have tried to send 
out on our little mental wires, only good 
thoughts this week ? Remember, these thoughts 
travel on little waves of ether, called Etheric 
waves*. Ether is an element in the air that is 
even finer than atmosphere. It must be very 
fine indeed, else it could not carry our thoughts. 

Ques . Did you notice how strong, and how 
much better you felt when you sent out these 
good thoughts? Why? Ans. Because good 
thoughts build up; construct. 

Now this week, we are going to learn what 
our minds are doing, while we are asleep. 

Blackboard: 

MIND—A UNIT 

Ques . Who knows what an object is? Ans . 
A form. 


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OBJECTIVE AND SUBJECTIVE 37 

Yes; something that has form; like a book; a 
tree; a house; a table; a picture, etc. 

Ques. We notice all 
these things when we 
are awake, but we do 
not see these things, 
when we are asleep, do 
we? Ans. No. 

Well, this part of our 
mind that sees these ob¬ 
jects, we call the Objec¬ 
tive Mind; this is the 
part of the mind that we use, while we are 
awake. (Point to the blackboard.) It is the 
upper part of our minds. We study with it, 
and read, and think, and this part of the mind 
thinks through the brain. 

Ques. Who knows where our brains are? 
Ans . In our heads. 

Yes; well, this is the little organ that the mind 
uses. Sometimes we see a poor little girl or 
boy, who has had an accident, perhaps, and 
whose brain-organ has been injured, so that he 
cannot think; we call him foolish, but he isn’t 
foolish. God made every child perfect, and this 
little child is perfect in spirit, only this little 
organ will not work for him. We cannot injure 
spirit, because it is perfect, but we can injure 
some part of the body. 




38 PSYCHOLOGY FOR THE YOUNG 


Our minds are always thinking, even when 
we are asleep; but when we sleep all the think¬ 
ing power in the upper mind, goes into the 
under mind. Did yon ever wonder why it is, 
that your heart does not stop beating while you 
are asleep? You couldn’t possibly stay awake 
to see that it kept on beating, could you? 

Ques. Well, what do you suppose takes care 
of that? What makes the blood keep flowing 
through your body, in the right direction; what 
takes care of your digestion, the supper you 
ate before going to bed; how is it that all the 
organs of your body (enumerate some of them) 
do not get all mixed up? Why, because mind 
takes care of them! You remember that there 
is mind in every tiny atom. 

Ques. Who knows what a Submarine is? 
Ans. A boat that travels under water. 

Yes; sub means under. 

Ques. What does it mean to be subject to 
anybody? Ans. Under someone’s control. 

We have often heard of Kings’ subjects, 
haven’t we ? (Explain.) Well, this under part 

of our minds that takes care of the body; keeps 
the heart beating, etc., is called the swb-jective 
mind; the under part of the mind. Don’t you 
see, how God takes care of us, every moment? 
We find His life and His mind everywhere. 

Call attention to blackboard. 


OBJECTIVE AND SUBJECTIVE 39 


We know that the under is always controlled 
by the upper. This sub-jective part of onr 
minds is like a great big sponge; it soaks up 
every thought that we think, while we are 
awake. All the thoughts that you and I are 
thinking now, flow down into this big sponge. 

If it is a constructive thought, a good thought, 
it makes the body feel nice and comfortable, 
and then we sleep soundly. If we have been 
kind and loving all day, this sub-jective mind 
works smoothly, all night; but if we have been 
cross and angry, it gets the body all upset, and 
it poisons the whole system. The body feels 
hot and uncomfortable, and our supper will not 
digest, and we find it hard to go to sleep. 

Now, you see the reason, don’t you? The 
under part of the mind feels everything that 
the upper part thinks. The upper part controls 
the under part. 

Ques. Who remembers the lesson about Con¬ 
structive, and Destructive thoughts? 

Ques . What is a Constructive thought? 
Ans. A good thought. A true thought. 

Ques. What do they do? Ans. Build up. 

Now, we see why they build up; because they 
flow down into the under part of the mind, and 
then, this part starts right in to build up the body. 

Ques. What is a Destructive thought? Ans. 
A bad thought; an untrue thought. 


40 PSYCHOLOGY FOR THE YOUNG 


Ques. What will that that kind of a thought 
do? Ans. Tear down; destroy. 

The bad and untrue thoughts flow down into 
this lower part of the mind, and the mind starts 
right in to tear down the body; make it sick. 
Remember, thoughts are more powerful than 
Electricity. 

Here is a list of good, true thoughts: 

“I am God’s perfect child.” 

‘ ‘ I live and move and have my being in God . 9 ’ 

“God is everywhere; Love is everywhere.” 

“God is Love.” 

“God’s child is always loving and kind.” 

“I am always loving and kind,” etc. 

Here is a list of bad, untrue thoughts: 

“I am sick.” 

“I don’t like to study.” 

“I hate that boy.” 

“I just can’t do that example.” 

“You play with your own doll, leave mine 
alone,” etc. 

Now, remember, what each thought will do, 
and be very careful. 


Golden text: A new commandment I give unto 
you, that ye love one another, as I have loved 
you, that ye also love one another. John . 13 : 
34 . 



LESSON NO. 8 


MIND AND MATTER 

Ques. Who remembers what we found in 
every tiny atom of matter? Arts. Mind. 

Ques. What kind of mind is in the mineral 
kingdom ? Ans. Instinctive. 

Ques. What kind of mind is in the vegetable 
kingdom? Ans. Instinctive. 

Ques. What kind of mind is in the animal 
kingdom? Ans. Instinctive. 

Ques. And what kind of mind in the human 
kingdom? Ans. Instinctive, Intellectual and 
Spiritual. 

You remember, in the last lesson, we found 
that mind is in every tiny atom of the body. 
That good thoughts make the body feel well. 
That bad thoughts make the body feel sick. 

Ques. Why do you suppose this is so? Ans. 
Because thoughts are forces. 

Now I’ll tell you just what happens. Every 
thought you think (remember it is a force) 
starts all the tiny atoms, in the body, moving. 
Constructive thoughts like: “I am strong,” 4 ‘I 
am perfect,” “I am God’s child,” “I am in- 
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42 PSYCHOLOGY FOR THE YOUNG 


telligent,” “I can do that example,” etc., make 
all the little atoms move very rapidly, and you 
feel strong, perfect, intelligent, etc. When you 
say: “ I am beautiful ’’—these tiny atoms, under 
the sub-jective mind (under part) start right in 
to make you beautiful. When you say “I am 
strong”—they build your body until you are 
very strong. (Speak of the importance of 
keeping true thoughts in the mind, continually. 
Impress the fact that God made every child of 
His perfect; that He does not make sickness and 
pain.) 

Ques. Hid you ever see an artist paint a 
picture ? 

Well, he has a large piece of canvas in front 
of him, and he takes his brushes and paints on 
the canvas, the beautiful picture that is in his 
mind. Remember, every thought will show in 
your body. Coarse, mean, angry thoughts will 
make coarse, mean looking bodies. 

Ques. Hid you ever see a man or a woman 
that looked cross and angry, all the time? 
Well, we don’t want to look like that, do we? 
Loving, kind thoughts make fine, beautiful 
bodies. They are God’s thoughts. You see, 
this artist could paint ugly, horrible pictures, if 
he thought ugly, horrible thoughts. So we can 
make ugly, coarse bodies, if we have this kind 


MIND AND MATTER 


43 


of thought in our minds. A mean, cross, angry 
thought will move all the tiny atoms in the body, 
in great haste, but every tiny atom will poison 
you and make you sick. You would not think of 
taking poison, would you? Well, that is what 
every angry, mean thought is like to your body. 
It may not show right away, but some day, you 
will wonder what is the matter with you. You 
never heard of Jesus being sick, did you? 

Ques. Why not? Ans. Because He never 
had a mean, angry, jealous thought. He was 
perfect in every way. Some day, we shall be 
like Him; but we shall have to be very careful 
about these thoughts of ours. 

Let us suppose, your head is like a glass globe 
full of gold fish, and that I can see every 
thought in your mind, just as we can see the 
tiny fish swimming around in the globe. Would 
you want me to see every thought that you 
think? You would want to hide some of them, 
wouldn’t you? Well, some day they will show 
in your body, and then everybody will see them. 

Ques. Did you ever notice that you can al¬ 
most always tell, that a man is a Minister, or a 
School Teacher, or a Doctor, or a Judge, when 
you see one? Why do you think that is? Ans. 
Because their thoughts are stamped on the 
body. Ex-pressed (pressed out). A minis- 


44 PSYCHOLOGY FOR THE YOUNG 


ter’s thoughts will make him look like a minis¬ 
ter; a teacher’s like a teacher, etc. (Give other 
examples.) 

You see, your mind and your body is all one 
substance. Your body is just expressed 
(pressed out) thought. If you start right now, 
to think kind, loving thoughts, when you get to 
be men and women, people will say: My! what 
fine looking people. That is the way all of 
God’s children ought to look. Let us start, 
right now. 


Golden text: For ye are bought with a price: 
therefore glorify God in your body, and in your 
spirit, which are God’s.—1 Cor. 6:20. 



LESSON NO 9 


MATTER AND FORM 

We found, in our first lesson that life, God’s 
life, cannot die. We learned, that the leaves 
that fall from the trees, do not die, but go into 
the ground, and make mineral, and vegetable 
matter. So you see, they only change their 
form . 

Do you remember that, in our last lesson, we 
learned that as our thoughts change, our bodies 
change, too ? That the thought is what changes 
them? Do you remember that mind, thought, 
never dies? That God is Mind? Well, this is 
what happens, when people leave the world; 
they just leave the old body, and they find them¬ 
selves with a new one. They need a finer body, 
because their thoughts have been growing finer 
and finer. They do not die; you cannot bury a 
spirit in the ground. No; each one of us have 
a finer body right here, and now; it is inside of 
this coarser one, and when we leave the coarser 
one, we immediately find ourselves in the finer 
one. When you see a funeral go by, do not feel 
badly, because you think someone is going to be 

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46 PSYCHOLOGY FOR THE YOUNG 

put into the ground, because that is not so. 
Only the old wornout body is put away, and 
that person is in a finer world with a finer body, 
right around us, here; he never goes into the 
ground. Just the minute a person stops breath¬ 
ing, that person is in the finer, more beautiful 
world, where there are a great many people, 
like there are here, and everything is just the 
same as here, only very much finer. Somebody 
is there to meet us, and to take care of us, just 
as there was here, when we came into this world. 
You must remember that God is everywhere, 
and that He is Love. There is no place where 
God is not. 

If you want to be a great musician, and you 
have only started here, then you will find plenty 
of teachers and wonderful musicians there. 
There are teachers, schools, lawyers, doctors 
and ministers there, as here. 

If we were only/me enough, we could see this 
finer world. All around us right here, and now . 
It is so fine that its forms do not interfere with 
our forms. Some people can see this finer 
world. There are trees, flowers, houses, 
schools, etc. (The teacher must remember that 
matter is but the ex-pression of mind; that mind 
and matter are one substance and eternal; that 
there is no such thing as a dis-embodied spirit; 
that spirit or consciousness never could func- 


MATTER AND FORM 47 

tion, or manifest without matter. Matter is 
everywhere as mind is everywhere; only there 
are degrees of fineness to match the degree of 
consciousness.) 

Proceed. We have a small organ in the back 
of our heads, called the Pineal Gland; it is just 
the shape of a pine-cone. This is called the 
spiritual eye, and if we had been trained to use 
this organ, we could see this finer world. 

Sometimes, very small children have little 
playmates that we cannot see, but they see them, 
and they play with them, and call them by name. 
This organ is greatly developed in the child, 
when it is young. (It is known, that if mothers 
encouraged children to believe in their unseen 
playmates, they would not have lost the use of 
this organ.) Your finer body will seem just as 
firm and substantial as this one, because we 
shall always have a body of matter. Matter 
and mind cannot separate. The Bible says: 
‘‘ There is a natural body, and there is a spirit¬ 
ual body.” ‘‘First that which is natural (of 
nature) and afterward, that which is spiritual” 
(of spirit substance). You see, we never die, 
but just change our form. God’s life is in us, 
and we cannot die. Changing worlds, is just 
like having a new suit of clothes, and a new 
house. 

When you have a new suit of clothes, you 


48 PSYCHOLOGY FOR THE YOUNG 


don’t care what happens to the old one, do you ? 
You feel fine; and if someone took your old one, 
and put it in a box, and buried it out in the back 
yard, you wouldn’t care, would you? Nothing 
happens to you when you get a new suit, only 
that you feel finer. Well, that is the same way 
we shall feel, when we leave this body for a new 
one; we will never even think of the old one, or 
care what happens to it, we shall be so pleased 
with the new one, and so delighted with the per¬ 
fectly beautiful world, that we shall find our¬ 
selves in. 

You see, how wrong it is for us to feel badly 
when people leave the world, because they are 
so happy, and find so many friends, that we 
should be very glad for them. It is just like 
going from downstairs, to the floor above. 

Now, the reason we are here, is because we 
could not climb upstairs until we had been 
downstairs. We go from the lower to the 
higher. We are here to make our bodies as fine 
as possible, by our fine, beautiful thoughts, so 
that when we leave this body, it will be just so 
much finer. What you do and think now, will 
determine where you will be in the finer world. 
It is just like school. 

Ques. If you do not study and learn your 
lessons, you do not get promoted, do you ? Ans. 
No. 


MATTER AND FORM 


49 


Well, we must learn our lesson here, if we 
want to enter a high class in the finer world. 


Golden text: It is sown a natural body; it is 
raised a spiritual body. There is a natural 
body, and there is a spiritual body.—I Cor. 
15:44 . 



LESSON NO. 10 


SPIRIT AND ITS INSTRUMENTS 

You remember, in our first lesson, we learned 
that God is Spirit . We learned also, that God 
or Spirit, created everything. Spirit is the only 
real thing in the Universe. Spirit never 
changes. Spirit was first; everything else was 
made from Spirit. When you say, “I am 
Spirit”—That means you; not your body or 
your mind or anything but you; the “I AM.” 

You say: “I have a body”; “I have a mind”; 
“I have a hand”; “I have imagination”; etc. 
These belong to you; and if they were taken 
away from you, you would still be you (spirit) 
in God’s image. These things belong to you, 
just as your doll, or your sled, or your kite, 
belong to you. You see, then, Spirit has instru¬ 
ments or tools, to use . 

Ques. What are tools? Ans. Things to 
work with; like hammers, scissors, screw¬ 
drivers, etc. (enumerate). 

When you make a boat or a box you use these 
tools, do you not? Well, Spirit has many tools; 
your body is one of your tools. Spirit is the 

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SPIRIT AND ITS INSTRUMENTS 51 


motor power. It makes all these tools move . 

Ques. Can you make your body do what you 
want it to? Ans. Yes. 

Then, you see, it is one of your tools. If 
you want it to dance, you (spirit) make it 
dance; if you want it to run, you make it run, 
etc. (Impress the power of the individual 
spirit upon the child mind, by other examples.) 
Your mind, also, is one of your tools. You can 
make your mind think what you want to, can 
you not? You can make yourself think kind 
thoughts, when you are tempted to think unkind 
thoughts. 

Illustrate. When you think, “I don’t like 
that girl, ’ ’ you can change your thought to this: 
“She is God’s child, and He loves her; I must 
love her too.” So you see, how Spirit uses 
mind? Mind is one of its tools. 

Your body and your mind are like an auto¬ 
mobile without power; but the spirit, that you 
are, is the power that makes your body, and 
your mind move. You might have a perfectly 
beautiful automobile, with all of its parts in 
order, but what would it be worth, if you could 
not make it gof If it had no powerf You 
might have a perfectly beautiful body, but if 
you were not inside of it, it would be like a 
statue. If you were not spirit, but were only a 
body, you would look like one of these wooden 



52 PSYCHOLOGY FOR THE YOUNG 

Indians, that you see, used as a cigar sign. 
Just something, without life. 

Here is another one of your tools; Your will. 
You say: “ I can r t do that example .’ 9 Then, ‘‘I 
mil do that example / 9 See, hbw you use this 
tool? It is a very important one, and we have 
to use it nearly all the time. You say. “Pm 
sick.” Then, you remember, and say: “I’m 
spirit; spirit cannot be sick.” 

Ques. What tool are you using now? Ans. 
Your mind. 

Everything that you think, have, do or say, 
belongs to you. If you want to make a small 
boat, you take the tool mind, and you think how 
to make the boat; and then, you take your hands 
and put the boat together. You see, how well 
your mind, and your body will obey you? Let 
us always remember, that spirit is the moving 
power. 

Ques. Who is it that represents the spirit 
of Christmas? Ans. Santa Claus. 

Yes, Santa Claus is the moving power of 
Christmas time. 

Ques. Who represents the spirit of Winter? 
Ans. Jack Frost. 

Yes, indeed, Jack keeps things moving, 
doesn’t he. 

Now, remember, you (spirit) have all these 
splendid tools to use. God gave them to you. 


SPIRIT AND ITS INSTRUMENTS 53 


He knew that you could not make anything, or 
learn anything without a mind , a body , and a 
will. Now, you know, we have to sharpen these 
tools, if we want to do fine work. 

Ques. What do you have done with your 
scissors, when they are dull? Ans. Have 
them sharpened. 

Ques. How would you make a better tool 
of your body? Ans. By exercising it. Using 
it. 

Yes, that will make it strong. You know 
what strong muscles a blacksmith has, from 
using a heavy iron hammer all day. Well, that 
is the way we make our minds, and our bodies 
stronger; by using them. 

Ques. What else makes the body fine and 
strong? Ans. Good, kind, loving thoughts. 

Yes, we know what constructive thoughts will 
do for the body. 

Ques. How would you make your mind a 
better tool? Ans. By using it. 

Yes, by study; by attending school, and learn¬ 
ing all we possibly can. We do not have to 
attend school to learn some things though, do 
we ? We can learn a great deal from other peo¬ 
ple, from traveling about, from moving-pic¬ 
tures, from Church, and Sunday School, etc. 
You see, your mind also, grows stronger., by 
exercising it. 


54 PSYCHOLOGY FOR THE YOUNG 


Ques. Now, how would you sharpen your 
will? Ans. By exercising it. 

When you don’t want to to do something, you 
say: “Here, Will, I command you to do that!” 
/ shall use my will. Make your tools obey you. 
You are spirit, and you rule them. 


Golden text: “Neither yield ye your members 
as instruments of unrighteousness unto sin .”— 
Rom. 6:13. 



LESSON NO. 11 


MIND AND ITS INSTRUMENTS 

In onr last lesson we learned about Spirit, 
and its tools. 

Ques. Can anyone remember what they 
were? Ans. Mind, body, reason, will, and 
imagination. 

Yes; these are the principal tools that we 
(spirit) use. We say: my mind, my body, my 
will, etc. You say, “I have a mind”; “/ have 
a body,” etc. We also learned how to sharpen 
these tools. 

Ques. Can anyone remember how we do 
that ? Ans. By using them; by exercise. 

Now, to-day, we learn that our mind (our 
greatest tool), has a tool of its own. Mind uses 
this tool constantly. 

Ques. Can anyone guess what tool that is? 
Ans . The body. 

Yes; the mind must have a body, because 
when we think of something we want to do, we 
could not do it, if we did not have a body. If 
you boys want to make a kite or a boat, or you 
girls want to make a little dress for your doll, 
you need your hands to do it with, do you not? 

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56 PSYCHOLOGY FOR THE YOUNG 

Ques. Could you make them without hands? 
Ans. No. 

Well then, your mind needs the body for its 
tool. Well, suppose you want to run across 
the street, or go to the moving-pictures, or to 
school, could you do it without a body? You 
say, “Pm going to school,” and your body 
obeys you. You say: “I think I’ll make a 
snow-man,” and your hands (body) obey you. 
(Give other examples that will be interesting to 
the children. Show the absolute control of the 
mind over the body, especially in learning new 
exercises, as swimming, climbing, etc.) 

Let us remember that the mind and the body 
are one substance (Spirit). Every thought 
moves the tiny atoms of the body and makes it 
either sick or well; fine or coarse; and when we 
want the body to dance, or play, or run, we 
think first. 

Let us make believe that our body is like an 
automobile and our mind is the power that runs 
the automobile. We want the body to cross the 
street, so we turn on the power (mind) and 
steer it across the street. You see, you had to 
think first , before you could move your body, 
just as a man must turn on the power before he 
can move his automobile. Now, when we find 
that our little automobile (body) does not work 
well, feels sick, then we must repair it. So 


MIND AND ITS INSTRUMENTS 57 


we remember that our thoughts will make it 
well again, and that the constructive thoughts 
(thoughts that build up) will repair this auto¬ 
mobile. 

Ques. Can you name some? Ans. U I am 
spirit”; “I am God’s perfect child”; “T am 
loving and kind”; “Spirit cannot be sick”; 
God’s life is my life,” etc. 

If you keep thinking thoughts like this, it 
won’t be long before your body will feel fine 
again, and you can make it do what you want it 
to. 

Ques. What will an automobile do when it 
runs out of gasoline? Ans. Stop. 

Yes; well, that is what your body does when 
it runs out of good, kind thoughts. If we think 
cross, angry thoughts, it gets all “smoked up,” 
like carbon in an automobile, and then we have 
to clear it out with good, kind thoughts. You 
know, when an automobile gets clogged up like 
that, it will not run well. You see, how careful 
we need to be, all the time, if we do not want 
our automobiles to balk? 

Let’s see who can have the best automobile 
(body). You know, if it doesn’t run well every¬ 
body will notice it, and then they will know that 
your thoughts have been cross, angry, and 
selfish, and that your body is all “smoked up” 
with bad thoughts. 


58 PSYCHOLOGY FOR THE YOUNG 

We know that a small body (tool) will do just 
as tine work as a large one, if it is in good order. 
We know that a Ford car can take us on a long 
trip, even as a large Pierce-Arrow car, if it is 
in good order. So we all have a body to use, 
and even though it is not as big, and strong as 
we might wish, yet, we can make it do splendid 
work for our minds, if we keep it in good repair. 
Beautiful thoughts, true thoughts, tine food, 
fresh air and exercise, will keep the body in fine 
running order. 

Let us not forget that a candle gives light, 
and that it is God’s light, even as the fine elec¬ 
tric light shines forth God’s light. Both are 
using the same light, but one has a smaller and 
weaker tool. Each is doing its very best. We 
learned in one of our lessons how to make finer 
bodies, that we might give a much brighter light. 

Each of us have a body (tool) and each of us 
can use it to ex-press (press out) the one In¬ 
finite Mind. God’s mind. 


Golden text: “But now ye also put off all 
these; anger, wrath, malice, blasphemy filthy 
communication out of your mouth.” — Col. 3:8. 



LESSON NO. 12 


LAW 

To-day, we shall learn what law is. In our 
first lesson, we learned that “God is law.” 

Let us make believe, that this is a Court 
Eoom, and I am the Judge. Now we are going 
to have a trial. James is guilty of breaking 
the law, because he stole Henry’s jack-knife. 
(Use two of the children present, for this illus.) 
The law is: “That anybody who steals is a 
thief.” That is the law (rule). I (the Judge) 
find that James has broken the law, and so we 
call him a thief. Then, a law is a rule. The. 
law is, that 2 plus 2 make 4. If we say 2 plus 2 
make 7, we break the law or rule; 2 plus 2 al¬ 
ways make 4, forever and ever. 

Ques. Now, can anyone tell me what will 
grow when we plant potatoes in the ground? 
Ans. Potatoes. 

Ques. Yes; but when we plant potatoes, why 
do not beans come up, instead? Ans. Because 
it is not God’s law. 

Ques. What happens when we plant corn, 
squash, peas, etc.? Ans. Corn, squash, and 
peas will come up. 


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You see, corn-seed always raises corn; 
squash-seed always raises squash, etc. This is 
the law. 

Ques. You never expect anything else to 
happen, do you? Ans. No. 

These vegetables never break the law of God. 

Now, let’s plant a garden of beautiful 
thoughts, and let us see who can raise the most 
beautiful flowers. 

Ques. I send out, or plant, in the Ether (air) 
a beautiful thought like, ‘ ‘ I love everybody, and 
everything”—what happens to that thought- 
seed? Ans. It grows. 

Ques. How? Ans. It attracts more 
thoughts like itself, and grows bigger and big¬ 
ger until you have a whole garden full of love. 

Now, you see, if we plant beautiful thoughts 
in our little mental gardens, they grow and 
grow, and attract more thoughts just like them¬ 
selves, and that is what makes such a beautiful 
garden and that is why we are so happy when 
we plant good thoughts. 

Ques. When we plant cross, angry, mean 
thoughts in this garden, what happens? Ans. 
They grow, and grow, and we have a whole gar¬ 
den full of angry, mean, cross thoughts, and a 
very ugly garden. 

Ques. How do you feel then? Ans. Un¬ 
happy, and sick. 


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61 


Yes, you feel as a man does when he finds 
that his whole potato crop is spoiled. What¬ 
ever kind of seed we plant, that is the kind of 
crop we shall have. Hate makes hate; Love 
makes love. 

Ques. What makes these thought-seeds 
grow? Ans. Action, Life. God’s life, and 
action. You know, that when you plant pota¬ 
toes, it is necessary to put only a few small 
pieces of potato in each hill, but when it is time 
to dig them you find a hill full of them. 

Ques. Why is that? Ans. It’s the law. 

Yes; whatever we send out, or plant, grows 
bigger and bigger, because it is constantly mov¬ 
ing, and as it moves, it draws to itself, more 
atoms, just like itself, and that is what makes it 
larger. (This is the law of increase.) You 
know how a snowball will grow bigger and big¬ 
ger as it rolls down hill? You see, it is the 
motion that causes things to grow. Of course 
we cannot see the attraction of the atoms in 
the ground, that causes the potatoes to grow, 
but we know the law, and so we know why there 
will be a hill full of potatoes. 

Now, let us remember, that whatever we give 
out, will come back to us much bigger than it 
was when we gave it, or planted it. If we want 
hate, plant it. Did you ever notice that when 
you say an angry word to another person, they 


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usually say something angry in return? That 
shows you how an angry thought sent out, will 
attract another, and another, just like it, and 
if you keep on saying angry things, then you 
finally feel like fighting. So you see how 
thoughts growf 

If you say a kind word, or a loving one, do 
you notice how something kind and loving is 
said in return, and if you keep on saying these 
kind, and loving words, you will attract a great 
many friends, and a great deal of love. You 
see, if we want love we must plant love. 

Ques. Why? Ans. Because it is the law. 

Suppose someone should hate you, how could 
you overcome that ? Let me tell you. Remem¬ 
ber that every thought moves; has motion, 
vibrates; all these tiny atoms in the thought- 
force, are moving very rapidly, like the tiny 
electrons in electricity. 

Now, remember, loving thoughts move very 
much faster, and are very much finer , than 
thoughts of hate. So, thoughts of love sent 
out, where there are thoughts of hate, will over¬ 
come them, because they are so much finer, and 
because they move so much faster. It is just 
like a big Pierce-Arrow car, with great power, 
will pass a small Ford car on the road. Love 
has all power, because Love is God’s power. 
God is Love. 


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63 


(The Mother or Teacher must understand 
that every thought has its own particular vibra¬ 
tion ; thought being an atomic force. The vibra¬ 
tions of love are finer and more rapid than 
those of hate, consequently, it has superior 
power. This is the scientific reason why love 
overcomes hate. Why we can overcome evil 
with good. Make the children see this.) 


Golden text: “Be not overcome of evil, but 
overcome evil with good/' — Rom. 12:21. 



LESSON NO. 13 

god’s REPRESENTATIVE—MAN 


The Bible says that God made man (human 
beings) in His image. God is Spirit. Spirit 
(God) always was. (Existed.) Spirit or God 
desired to ex-press (press out) Himself, so He 
made Man (human beings). (Man, in this in¬ 
stance, means humanity.) So, whenever we see 
a man, woman or child, we know that they ex¬ 
press God, or Spirit. Each one is in His image 
and likeness. 


(Recall this illustra¬ 
tion) 



Ques. You never saw 
a man, woman or child 
without a form (body) 
did you! Ans. No. 


Well, when God began 
to err-press Himself, it 
was in form (shape). 


Ques. If I write on 
the blackboard the form 


(figure) 4, what does that ex-press to you! 
Ans. The number four. 


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GOD’S REPRESENTATIVE—MAN 65 

Yes; if there was no figure, form or shape, we 
should never be able to know anything about 
numbers. And, if there was no number, we 
should not have any figure (form). 

Ques. What does (1 plus 1 plus 1 plus 1 plus 
1) ex-press to you? Ans. Number 5. 

Yes; you see, whenever we have a figure 
(form) we know that there is something back 
of it. 

Ques . You did not see the number 5, did 
you? Ans. No. 

But you knew it was, because you know that 
five l’s express five. We do not see God or 
Spirit, but we know that men, women and chil¬ 
dren express God or Spirit. 

Ques . What else expresses God? Ans. 
Everything. 

Yes; everything that has form has life, and 
life is God. But men, women, and children are 
in exactly the same image as God, and some 
day, will be just like God’s perfect son, Jesus. 

Well, now we know that wherever we see a 
form or figure we know that something unseen 
is ex-pressed (pressed-out). When we see a 
beautiful flower (form) we know that there are 
unseen flowers. This coarser flower that we 
see, has a finer form on which this coarser form 
is built. Just as we have, also. If the flower 
has an outside, it must have an inside. The 


66 PSYCHOLOGY FOR THE YOUNG 

flower that we see, is pressed out , of the Unseen. 
(As nearly as possible, explain to the children, 
that form and organism represent (re-present) 
or express a principle. Therefore, form is as 
eternal as the principle, which is God. Its out¬ 
ward expression changes, but the inner prin¬ 
ciple, never.) 

Ques. Could we know that there is a number 
five, without the forms that re-present it (1 plus 
1 plus 1 plus 1 plus 1)? Ans. No. 

You see, I put my thoughts (unseen) in the 
form of speech or words, so that you may know 
what I think. 

Ques. If a painter wants you to know what 
picture is in his mind, what does he do? Ans. 
Paints it. 

Yes; he gives it a form. Ex-presses it 
(presses it out.) 

Ques. If a musician wants you to know of 
the beautiful harmonies in his mind, what does 
he do? Ans. Writes music, or plays for you. 

Yes; he puts it in form, so that you may see 
or hear it. (The mother or teacher must re¬ 
member that thoughts, unseen by the physical 
eye, have form. The Ether or finer atmosphere 
is filled with thought-forms [demonstrated by 
physical science] which manifest in coarser 
form when attracted by an individual, through 
like vibratory thought). 


GOD’S REPRESENTATIVE—MAN 67 


Ques. Suppose you have a picture in your 
mind of a nice little boat, and you want some¬ 
one to see it, what do you do? Ans. Build it. 

Yes; you give it form. Then, everyone knows 
what was in your mind. You express it. So 
whatever we see in form we know that some¬ 
body thought of it first, and then gave it form. 
That is just exactly what God did when He 
made the worlds, animals, and the people. He 
thought first, then, He gave His thoughts form. 

Ques. What are some of the things that men 
make (form) today? Ans. Flying-machines, 
submarines, automobiles, Victrolas, etc. (Enu¬ 
merate.) 

Yes; these are forms; each one expresses a 
thought. Now, let us remember that each one 
of us are a part of the great Spirit. That we 
can never die, because Spirit (God) never can 
die. God is Life. All spirits are part of the 
one great Spirit. All forms are part of the 
one Substance, (form). Spirit is the inside. 
Body or form is the outside. 


Golden text: And as we have home the image 
of the earthly , we shall also hear the image of 
the heavenly .— 1 Cor. 15:49. 



LESSON NO. 14. 


CAUSE AND EFFECT 

Ques . Who made everything? Ans. God. 

Ques. What is God? Ans. Spirit. 

Yes; then Spirit is the Cause of everything 
made. Let us see what Cause means. You re¬ 
member that the law of God is, that when we 
plant corn-seed, only corn will grow. 

Ques. Why does corn grow instead of pota¬ 
toes? Ans. Because corn-seed was planted. 

Ques. What then, is the Cause of com grow¬ 
ing? Ans. The seed. 

Yes; the seed causes the corn to grow. The 
seed is the Cause. Cause means reason. The 
reason why corn grows. 

Ques. What is the result of planting corn- 
seed? Ans. Corn growing. 

Yes; we call this result the Effect. Effect 
means result. You see, corn-seed is the Cause 
(reason) and corn growing is the Effect (re¬ 
sult). 

Example: Let’s pretend that we are going 
to build a bon-fire. We get all the rubbish 
ready in a pile, then we take a match and light 
a fire. 

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CAUSE AND EFFECT 69 

Ques. What causes the fire? Ans. The 
match. 

Yes; the match is the Cause of the fire. Ques. 
What is the Effect of the lighted match, and the 
pile of rubbish? Ans. The fire. 

Yes; the fire is the Effect or result. We 
couldn’t have the fire without the match. So 
the match is the Cause, and the fire is the 
Effect. 

Other examples: 

Ques. What is the Cause of Winter? 

Ques. What is the Effect of Winter? 

Ques. What is the Cause of War? 

Ques. What is the Effect of War? 

Ques. What is the Cause of night? 

Ques. What is the Effect of night? 

Ques. What is the Cause of Day? 

Ques. What is the Effect of Day? 

(The mother or teacher may give other ex¬ 
amples). 

We see now, that the Cause of anything is the 
reason for it. That the Effect of the Cause is 
the result. Whenever we see the Effect of any¬ 
thing, we look for the Cause. 

When you see a big fire, do you not want to 
know what the cause is? You say: there must 
be some cause for it; some reason for it. So 
you see, Cause and Effect must always go to¬ 
gether. 


70 PSYCHOLOGY FOR THE YOUNG 


We have learned that God (Spirit) is the 
First Cause. Spirit caused everything to exist. 
Everything was made good; because First 
Cause or God is only good. So if the Cause is 
Good, the Effect must be good also. God made 
each one of us, so we are like Him. We can 
never be God, but we are like God. You can 
never be your father or your mother, but you 
are like them. You will always be their child. 
We shall always be God’s children. 

Blackboard: 


Cause—Reason Effect—Result 

God . Man. 

Spirit.Spiritual. 

Life . Living. 

Substance. Substantial. 

Mind . Idea. 

Intelligence . Intelligent. 

Perfection . Perfect. 

Love . Loving. 

All.I am included in God. (All). 


You see now, that what comes out of the 
Cause, must be in the Cause. 

Ques. Did you ever see an acorn? Ans. 
Yes. 

Well, you know what a small thing it is. 
Ques. What comes from an acorn? Ans. 
An oak tree. 

Yes; and oak trees grow to be very large in- 











CAUSE AND EFFECT 


71 


deed. You can hold a tiny acorn in your hand, 
and you can hardly believe that a giant oak 
tree will grow from that tiny thing. You see, 
that tree is in the life of the acorn (not in the 
acorn). The life (essence) of the Effect (tree) 
is in the Cause (acorn). This is God’s law. 
(rule). 

Now, we can see, why each child of God has 
God’s life. God is the Cause (reason), and we 
are the Effect (result). 

Ques. We have perfect life, but do we ex¬ 
press perfection? Ans. No. Ques. Why? 
Ans. Because we are not fully grown. Ques. 
Does an oak tree express perfection in two or 
three years? Ans. No. Ques. Why? Ans. 
Because it hasn’t had time to grow. 

Yes; that is why we are not perfect yet; we 
need more time. We are so much more won¬ 
derful than a tree, and you know how many, 
many years it takes a giant tree to grow; so it 
will take us a long, long, time to become perfect , 
like Christ. 

Ques. Shall we ever become perfect? Ans. 
Yes. 

Ques. Why? Ans. Because God (the 
Cause) is perfect, and we (the effect) live and 
move and have our being in Him (the Cause). 
The Effect is always in the Cause. The Effect 
must be like unto the Cause. 


72 PSYCHOLOGY FOR THE YOUNG 


Ques. What is the Cause of an angry word? 
Ans. Angry thoughts. 

Ques. What is the Cause of loving words? 
Ans. Loving thoughts. 

(Give sufficient examples of Cause and Effect, 
so that each child will realize personal responsi¬ 
bility for his thoughts, words or deeds, and the 
inevitable effects. Recall the Law of Increase, 
through planting of seed. Cause them to see 
the relation of Cause and Effect.) 


Golden text: Be ye therefore perfect, even as 
your Father which is in heaven is perfect .— 
Matt. 5:48 



LESSON NO. 15 


EVIL 

Ques. What did you learn is the First Cause 
of everything? Ans. God. 

Ques. Is God good? Ans. Yes, only good. 

Ques. Is everything, and everybody that God 
created, good? Ans. Yes. 

Ques. Why? Ans. Because the Effect 
must be like unto the Cause. 

Now we. know that God made each one of us 
perfect, and we (spirit) are like God, who is 
Spirit. (We cannot be God, but we are like 
Him.) If God made everybody perfect, why do 
you suppose there is so much Evil in the world? 
Why do people hate one another, and why do we 
have sin, sickness, war, hate, envy, jealousy, 
etc.? God did not make these things, because 
He is Perfect, and cannot make imperfection. 
God does not have anything to do with sin, sick¬ 
ness, jealousy, etc. Let us find out why there is 
so much in the world that is not like God. 

Ques. How much is 2 times two? Ans . 4. 

Yes; that is the law. That is the truth. 

Ques. Suppose I told you that 2 times 2 
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74 PSYCHOLOGY FOR THE YOUNG 


equals 7, what would you think? Ans. That I 
did not know any better, or else, that I was 
telling you a falsehood. 

Yes; you all know that it is false, and that the 
truth is, that 2 times 2 equals 4, and always 
will. Even though I think it equals 7. 

Ques. Because I think so, doesn’t change the 
truth about it, does it? Ans. No. 

Ques. Then it is my mistake, and if I tried to 
multiply that way, I could never get a position 
in a bank, could I? Ans. No. 

Ques. Suppose someone said to you: “If I 
plant this corn-seed it will raise a crop of pota¬ 
toes,” what would you think of that person? 
Ans. That he did not know any better. 

Yes; you know the truth about it, and if that 
person planted the corn-seed and waited, and 
waited for potatoes, he would find out his mis¬ 
take. You see the law (truth) never changes. 
Because God is Truth, and God never changes. 
That person must learn the law (truth). He 
might plant acres, and acres of corn, and he 
could never raise a potato from the corn-seed. 
Now, we can see why we make mistakes. Be¬ 
cause we do not know the law (truth). 

In the first place, we did not know that God 
made us perfect. That we (spirit) cannot be 
sick, angry, cross, hateful, envious or jealous. 
We are like God, made in His Image, and Like - 


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75 


ness. The Effect must be like the Cause. 

Ques. Then why do we get sick, angry, cross, 
hateful and jealous? Ans. Because we do not 
know that love creates love; hate creates hate, 
etc. 

We do not know the law, or else we forget. 
We are like the man who planted corn and 
thought to raise potatoes. We plant hate, and 
try to raise love; we plant anger, and try to 
reap peace; we plant mean, wicked, cross, 
thought-seed and expect to keep our bodies well, 
and strong. See, how foolish we are! We 
need not laugh at the man who tries to grow 
potatoes from corn-seed, because we are just as 
foolish. The law is, that whatever we plant, 
we shall harvest. This is the truth. 

Ques. If we disobey the law, does that 
change the law? Ans. No. 

If we plant hate, hoping to get love, we find 
out our mistake; we find that it is false, and we 
learn what the truth is. You see, we must know 
the truth about things before we can succeed. 
This is the truth about each of God’s children, 
all over the world. 

Blackboard: 

Truth Table. Multiplication Table. 

“I am spirit.” 2 times 1 equals 2. 

“I am perfect.” 2 times 2 equals 4. 

“I am loving and kind.’’ 2 times 3 equals 6. 


76 PSYCHOLOGY FOR THE YOUNG 


“I am full of life.” 2 times 4 equals 8. 

“I am a part of Gcd.” 2 times 5 equals 10, etc. 

“I live and move and have my being in God.’* 

Ques. When yon learned your multiplication 
tables what did you have to do ? Ans. Repeat 
them over and over again. 

Yes; and now you know them. When some¬ 
one says, that 2 plus 2 equals 7, we know that 
he is making a mistake. It is not true. We 
must say these truths about ourselves many 
times a day, until we know that we are perfect. 
To sin, to hate, to be envious, jealous, mean, or 
cross, is to make a mistake. 

After you have learned the truth about your¬ 
self (refer to blackboard) you will know im¬ 
mediately that you are making a mistake when 
you say: 

“I am sick.” 

‘ ‘ I am discouraged. ’ 1 

“God does not love me.” 

“I hate that boy.” 

‘ ‘ I can’t do that example. * 9 

“I am stupid,” etc. 

You see, how you are disobeying the law? 
Let us try every day to remember and repeat 
over, and over again our Truth-Table, just as 
you used to learn the Multiplication Table. 
Some day we shall be just as much ashamed to 
say that we are sick, or discouraged, or that we 


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77 


hate anyone, as we would be ashamed to say, 
that 2 times 2 equals 7. Both statements are 
false. God did not make evil; we make it our¬ 
selves by our mistakes. God is only God, and 
He wants us to have all good things, but we 
must obey His laws. 

Ques. What are His laws? 

A ns. “ Plant love, and you will reap love.” 

‘ ‘ Give, and it shall be given unto you. ’ 9 

“Fine thoughts and fine food make fine 
bodies . 9 9 

“Your power is God’s power.” 

Know that “God supplies your every need.” 

“Nothing but good can come to you.” 

“God is good, and God is All.” 

“I live and move and have my being in Him.” 

Sin, sickness, evil, hate, anger, etc., are the 
result of our not knowing the law (truth) about 
ourselves, and about God. When we learn our 
Truth-Table, and live it, we shall be free from 
sin, sickness, anger, envy, jealousy, etc. 


Golden text: “And ye shall know the truth, 
and the truth shall make you free.” — John. 
8:32. 



LESSON NO. 16 


CREATIVE POWER 


Ques. Who made everything? Ans. God. 

Yes; then God or Spirit must have all power. 
If God (spirit) made everything, then He must 
have had the 'power to make everything. All 
power then, belongs to God. To make means to 
create. God is the First Cause or Creator. 
(Power)—A unit—A perfect whole. Power, 
like Mind, Life, or Spirit, is one thing—a per¬ 
fect whole. The same power that lights your 
rooms at night (electric) will draw a train of 
cars, run an automobile, drive an aeroplane, or 


operate a fan, victrola, 
etc. You see it is all 
one power, but less or 
more of it. Wherever 
there is life, there is 
power; and wherever 
there is power, there is 
God. God is every¬ 
where, so we find life 
and power everywhere. 



God is everywhere (All). You have some 
power; your father has more, a great, big giant 
has still more; but it is all God’s power. We 
use it; but we cannot make power. (Make it 


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CREATIVE POWER 


79 


clear to the children that power, like everything 
else, is the Gift of God.) We use Electricity. 
We use Steam. We use Gas, etc. If all power 
is from God, then God is the great power-house; 
He is all power. These different kinds of power 
are all from the one power-house. (Illustrate 
thus: Hold up the hand, with palm toward the 
children, and with fingers extended.) 

Proceed: Let’s make believe that the palm 
is the power-house where Electricity is made. 
This little finger represents an electric-bulb; 
this next one, an electric flat-iron; the middle 
one is quite large so that takes more power, that 
represents an electric-engine; the next, a coffee- 
grinder, and the thumb, a victrola. Each one 
is connected with the power-house (the palm) 
each one has some power. All depend upon 
the one power-house; the same power flows 
through each different machine. Just as the 
same blood flows through each finger. Now, 
we see how all power comes from God (the 
great power-house), who is All. 

Blackboard: 

Power of Life. 

Power of Mind. 

Power of Light. 

Power-house—God. Power of Will. 

Power of Reason. 

Power of Everything. 


80 PSYCHOLOGY FOE THE YOUNG 


Affirm: 

I live because God is the source of my Life. 

I think because God is the source of my Mind. 

I move because God is the Source of my Mo¬ 
tion. 

I will because God is the source of my Will. 

I reason because God is the source of my 
Eeason. 

All of my power is from God. In Him I live 
and move and have my being . God is here, 
there, and everywhere. I breathe His life; I 
move with His motion; I think with His mind; I 
now am in God. I feel His presence every¬ 
where, in this room; on the street; alone, or 
with others; Always, I am in God. I cannot 
be lost from God, for God is all; everywhere. 
Just as the giant oak tree has its being (life) in 
the acorn, so, I have my being (life) in God. 

Ques. Now, do you see, why your power is 
the power of God. Ans. Yes. 

Ques. When you make anything, what power 
do you use? Ans. God’s power. 

Ques. Why? Ans. Because there is no 
other. 

When you boys make a boat or a sled, you use 
God’s power; the same power that God used to 
make the worlds. 

Ques. What power do you use when you 
think? Ans. God’s mind-power. 


CREATIVE POWER 81 

Ques. Where does mind-power come from? 
Ans. God. 

Ques. Whose life do you live and breathef 
Ans. God’s life. 

Yes; every breath you draw is the breath of 
life. God’s life. There is only one life, re¬ 
member. When we cease to breathe in this 
body, w T e continue to breathe in a finer body, so 
we never lose our life, because God is our life. 
Life cannot die. 

You say: “I think I’ll make a wagon.” You 
are using God’s mind-power, because you have 
to think about the wagon, and plan how to make 
it; then, you use God’s motion to make each 
part, and to put them together. So we make 
things with the same power which God used to 
make the Universe. 

Ques. What power do you use when you do 
your examples? Ans. God’s mind power. 

Ques. What power, when you run? Ans. 
God’s power. 

Ques. What power, when you play, laugh, 
sing, dance, work or think? Ans. God’s. 

Golden text: “God hath spoken once; twice 
have I heard this, that power belongeth unto 
God/' — Ps. 62 : 11 . 



LESSON NO. 17 
nature's five elements 


Ques. What is First Cause? Ans. Spirit. 

Ques. Who created everything? Ans. God. 

Yes; God is Spirit, and everything was made 
from Spirit. 

Ques. Do you think that God could make 
something out of nothing? Ans. No. 

Now, we shall see what materials God had to 
use. 

Ques. What does the word material mean? 
Ans. The substance of which anything is made 
(formed). 

Yes; material out of which to form some¬ 
thing—like a dress, or a suit. When your 
mother says that she has material for a new 
dress for you, you know that she has something 
out of which to make a dress. 

Ques. Could she make it without cloth? 
Ans. No. 

No indeed, she must have material. 

Ques. Did you ever see a carpenter build a 
house? Ans. Yes. 


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NATURE’S FIVE ELEMENTS 83 


Ques. Well, what did he build it of? Ans. 
Boards, shingles, lath, timbers, etc. 

Ques. What, then, do we call these different 
things that the carpenter uses? Ans. His 
materials. 

Yes; well, now we shall find that God had 
five different materials to use when He made 
everything. 

Blackboard: 

Ques. Which is the highest, and finest mate¬ 
rial ? Ans. Spirit. 

Ques. What is Ether? XX\o*V\»oy\ 

Ans. An element that 
is finer than the Atmos¬ 
phere. 

Yes; Ether is not as 
fine as Spirit. 

Ques. What is still 
less fine? Ans. At¬ 
mosphere. 

Ques. What is the 
fourth element? Ans. Water. 

Ques. And, what is the last, and coarsest of 
all? Ans. The Earth. 

Yes; now, let us name them, from the finest 
to the coarsest. 

Ques. First is what? Ans. Spirit. 

Ques. Second is what? Ans. Ether. 







84 PSYCHOLOGY FOR THE YOUNG 


Ques. Third is what? Ans. Atmosphere, 
etc. 

Ques. How many elements are there ? Ans. 
Five. 

Ques. What are they for? Ans. God uses 
them to form worlds , and all forms. 

Yes; everything that has form, and life, has 
in it these five elements. 

Ques. Name some forms of life for me? 
Ans. A tree; a bird; a world, etc. 

Ques. Who made them? Ans. God. 

Ques. Which element did you say is the 
highest ? Ans. Spirit. 

Ques. Which is the lowest? Ans. Earth. 

Ques. Is the lowest included in the highest? 
Ans. Yes; always. 

Ques. Do you remember this illustration? 1 
plus 1 plus 1 plus 1 plus 1 equals 5. You see, 
how the lowest number is included in the high¬ 
est? Ans. Yes. 

We can easily understand that it takes the 
lower numbers to make the higher. Earth is 
the lowest element, and Spirit the highest; then 
Earth (the lowest) must be included in Spirit 
(the highest). 

Ques. What other elements are included in 
Spirit? Ans. Water, Atmosphere, and Ether. 

Now, let's see what occurs when God creates, 


NATURE’S FIVE ELEMENTS 85 


or forms anything. You remember that every¬ 
thing is vibrating. 

Ques. What does vibrating mean? Ans. 
In motion. 

Yes; everything is constantly in motion. 
Each one of these five elements of Nature (point 
to blackboard) is in motion (vibration). 

Ques . What did we learn causes one thing to 
be finer than another? Ans. A more rapid 
motion; vibration more rapid. 

Yes; this is the only difference between these 
five elements (materials), one moves faster than 
another; each one is part of the one substance 
Spirit. We know that there are fine materials, 
and coarse materials. There is muslin cloth, 
lawn, woolen cloth, and silks; but all are mate¬ 
rial. Each have a different vibration. You 
know, the reason we cannot see Electricity is 
because it vibrates so rapidly. 


Ques. Can we see steam? Ans. No. 
Ques. Can we see mind? Ans. No. 
Ques. Can we see Ether? Ans. No. 
Ques. Can we see Spirit? Ans. No. 


Ques. Why? Ans. Because they vibrate too 
rapidly. 




86 PSYCHOLOGY FOR THE YOUNG 


Ques. Can we see water? Ans. Yes. 

Ques. Why? Ans. Because the vibration 
of water is slower. 

Ques. How about earth? Ans. That, too, 
we can see. 

We must not forget that each of these ele¬ 
ments is a unit; one thing. 

Blackboard: 

Draw five circles; one representing each ele¬ 
ment; Place in each center the statement “All 
Earth,” “All Ether,” “All Atmosphere,” etc. 
Each unit is included in the highest unit, Spirit. 

Blackboard: 

Draw five circles; one inside of the other, 
making Spirit the largest, and outer one, and 
Earth the smallest, and inner one. 

Ques. See, how each and all are included in 
Spirit? Ans. Yes. 

Then, as all are in Spirit; Spirit must be in 
all and each , in a degree. Just as God’s Spirit 
is in you , and in me, in a degree. Just as Elec¬ 
tricity is in a tiny bulb, or an automobile, in a 
degree. When God formed the worlds, or any¬ 
thing, He used these five elements (materials). 
Nothing could have been formed without them. 
Every tree; every flower; every world; etc., has 
in it earth, water, atmosphere, ether, and spirit. 

Ques. What is Spirit? Ans. God. 


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Then, we find again, that God is everywhere; 
in the earth, water, atmosphere, and in the 
ether. 


Golden text: “All things were made by Him: 
and without Him was not a/nything made that 
was made” — John . 1:3. 



LESSON NO. 18 


INVOLUTION AND EVOLUTION 

Ques. Who remembers what is in an acorn? 
Ans. The life (spirit) of an oak tree. 

Yes; the life is the spirit of the tree; we 
learned that spirit (God) is in everything. 
When God created everything, He put His 
spirit into everything. Nothing could have 
been made without Spirit, for God is Spirit. 

Ques. What are you? Ans. Spirit. 

Yes; and we found that when you make any¬ 
thing you put some of your spirit into it, God 
put His spirit into every tiny atom. We call 
this “putting in” of spirit into atoms, m-volu- 
tion. Spirit in every tiny atom. That is easy 
to remember. 

Ques. What is m-volved in the acorn? Ans. 
The spirit of an oak tree. 

Yes; this is involution of an oak tree; the oak 
tree must come from the acorn. Whatever is in 
a thing, must come out. 

Ques. Why must it come out? Ans. Be¬ 
cause everything is constantly moving. 

Yes; Life, motion never ceases. So when we 
plant an acorn, an oak tree must come out; grow 
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INVOLUTION AND EVOLUTION 89 


from it. The “coming out” of that which is in 
the acorn, we call e-volution. The oak tree 
evolves (comes out) from the acorn. 

Ques. Now, once again; To put in is called 
what ? Ans. Zw-volution. 

Ques. To come out is called what? Ans. 
E-volution. 

That which is in-volved must be e-volved. 
Spirit (God) which is in all, must come out (ex¬ 
press). We are spirit, like unto God, and this 
spiirt must be evolved (expressed). We are 
now, like the tiny acorn, only a little spirit ex¬ 
pressed or evolved each day; hut some day our 
perfect , whole, spirit will have evolved (come 
out). 

Ques. How does the oak tree grow? Ans. 
Slowly. 

Yes; each day it evolves a little more until it 
has fully grown , after many years. 

Ques. What is in-volved in a kernel of corn? 
Ans. Corn. 

Yes; corn is in the seed, and must come out. 

Ques. Can you get something out of a seed 
that is not in it? Ans. No. 

Ques. Why? Ans. Because only that 
which is in a seed, can come out. Only that 
which is involved can evolve. 

Ques. If you want to be a musician, what do 
you do? Ans. Study, and practice. 


90 PSYCHOLOGY FOE THE YOUNG 


Yes; put your work into the days. 

Ques. What comes out of your efforts ? 
Ans. Musical ability. 

Yes; you think music, practice music, and 
work for music, so music must come out. That 
which we put in must come out. The law of in¬ 
volution and evolution works for us constantly. 

Ques. If we put love into our lives, what 
comes out? Ans. Love. 

Ques. If we put hate into life? Ans. Hate. 

How about thoughts of success ? 

How about thoughts of strength? 

How about thoughts of failure? 

How about thoughts of jealousy? 

How about thoughts of fear? 

How about thoughts of timidity? etc. 

Be very careful what you put in, because it 
must come out. That is the law. 

What do you do if you wish to become an 
Electrician ? 

What do you do if you wish to become an 
Engineer? 

What do you do if you wish to become a 
School-Teacher? 

What do you do if you wish to become a 
Minister? 

What do you do if you wish to become a 
Lawyer? 


INVOLUTION AND EVOLUTION 91 

What do you do if you wish to become a 
Doctor? 

What is involved? What is evolved? You 
see, it is just like planting a certain kind of 
seed in order that you might harvest a certain 
kind of harvest. If you know what kind of a 
harvest you want, you know what kind of seed 
to plant. If you know what you want to be, 
then you know what you must do. 

Ques. What is involved in a peach-pit? 
Ans. A peach. 

Ques. What is e-volved ? Ans. A peach. 

Ques. What is involved in a pumpkin-seed? 
What is e-volved? Ans. A pumpkin. 

(Use sufficient examples to cause the children 
to see the practical application of this great 
truth). 

Ques. Can you tell me what is involved in 
God’s children? Ans. God’s spirit, God’s 
life, God’s mind, God’s love, God’s power, God’s 
will. 

Ques. What, then, must evolve? Ans. 
God’s spirit, God’s life, God’s mind, God’s love, 
God’s power, God’s will. 

Yes; God planted in each child the seed of 
perfection , and it will grow and grow, until each 
one of His children has become like Him; per¬ 
fect. It is in us, and it must come out. 


92 PSYCHOLOGY FOR THE YOUNG 


Ques. How shall we grow like Him? Ans. 
By being loving, kind, by thinking only good, 
true thoughts; by helping one another; and by 
knowing that Love (God) never leaves us, for 
a single instant, because we live in Him. We 
are in His Image and Likeness. 


Golden text: “If we live in the Spirit, let us 
also walk in the Spirit. — Gal. 5:26. 



LESSON NO. 19 


THE LAW OF EXPEESSION 

Ques. What is in an apple-seed? Ans. The 
life of an apple. 

Yes; we call this life, the essence of the apple. 

Ques. What must occur to produce the ap¬ 
ple? Ans. Growth of the seed. 

Ques. Suppose the seed had never been 
planted, would there be any apples? Ans. No. 

Ques. What only, would there be? Ans. 
Apple-seed. 

Ques. Has an apple-seed any great value to 
us? Ans. No. 

Ques. What makes it valuable? Ans. The 
apple. 

Yes; you see, even apple-seeds have their 
special work to do; and whenever we eat a 
delicious apple, let us remember that the tiny 
seed has accomplished its work. The apple is 
a complete thing; it is finished. 

Ques. What is the first thing that you do 
before you make anything? Ans. Think about 
it. 

Ques. Is it finished then ? Ans. No. 

Ques. What must you do then, to complete 

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94 PSYCHOLOGY FOR THE YOUNG 

it? Ans. Get some tools, and make or build 
it. Give yonr thought form. 

Ques. If you wish to become a teacher, can 
you become one by just thinking about it ? Ans. 
No. 

Ques. What must you do? Ans. Study, 
and work. 

Ques. How about a Musician? 

Ques. How about a Lawyer? 

Ques. How about a Banker? 

Ques. How about a Minister, etc. 

Ques. What is required to complete any¬ 
thing? Ans. Action. 

Ques. Is anything perfect until it is ex¬ 
pressed? Ans. No. 

Ques. And, what does it mean to ex-press? 
Ans. To press out; to act. 

Ques. Did we find that there is action every¬ 
where? Ans. Yes. 

Ques. How do you know? Ans. Because 
there is life everywhere. 

Then as there is action everywhere, every 
thought, word, deed, desire, and ambition, must 
be expressed. We learned how every thought 
changes the motion of the atoms of the body. 
How they are expressed (pressed out) on the 
body. 

Ques. How do you know when a thing is ex¬ 
pressed? Ans. We see its form. 


THE LAW OF EXPRESSION 95 


Yes; when it is completely formed, then, it is 
complete, finished. The apple-seed is ex¬ 
pressed when it has become the form of the 
apple. 

Ques. In what form do you ex-press your 
thoughts ? Ans. In the form of words. 

Ques. If I desire to ex-press my thought to 
you, what do I do? Ans. Speak. 

Ques. If you desire to make a sled, how do 
you complete, or express your desire? Ans. 
By making it; by action. 

Ques. Do you remember what it is that ex¬ 
presses number? Ans. Figure. 

Yes; the form (figure) completes the ex¬ 
pression. 

Ques. What completes a kind thought? 
Ans. To ex-press it. 

Ques. Would you and I have ever lived, if 
God had not expressed Himself? Ans. No. 

No; God’s children are the ex-pression of 
God. We are God’s thoughts expressed; We 
express His life, His spirit, His love, etc. 

Ques. Does God need us to express Him? 
Ans. Yes. 

Ques . When will God’s expression be per¬ 
fect? Ans. When all His children are perfect. 

Ques. Do we express Him very well now? 
Ans. No. 

Ques. Let us remember that nothing is com- 


96 PSYCHOLOGY FOE THE YOUNG 


plete until it is fully expressed. If yon have a 
good thought, how do you complete it? Ans. 
Speak it. 

If you have a box of candy, share it. 

If you have an apple, share it. 

If you have a talent, develop it. 

If you have anything, use it; put it into 
action. This is the Law of Expression, and the 
law of God. 

Ques . Does God express Himself? Ans. 
Yes. 

Ques. Where? Ans. Everywhere. 

Ques. How, then, shall we become like Him? 
Ans. By following His law of ex-pression; ex¬ 
press ourselves. 

Let us try this week to express love, wisdom, 
power, intelligence, and goodness; then, we shall 
be ex-pressing God. We must not forget that 
whatever we express (plant) grows larger, and 
larger, by the law of Action. 


Golden text: “He which someth sparingly 
shall reap sparingly: and he which soweth 
bountifully shall reap bountifully.”—II Cor . 
9:6. 



LESSON NO. 20 
god's relation to his creations 

You remember that we discovered that in 
making a boat, a wagon, or a doll’s dress 
we put our work and our thought into it. So 
that we arrived at the conclusion that we put 
some of ourselves into the creation. 

Ques. You do not feel any smaller or weaker 
after making a boat or a kite, do you? Ans. 
No. 

Ques . You do not lose yourself or even part 
of yourself, in the creation, do you? Ans. No. 

Well then, you are distinct from your work, 
but not separate from it. You put your thought 
and your effort into the boat, but you remain 
just as distinct as you were before you made it. 
You are one unit, and the boat is another. You 
are not the boat, nor is the boat you. 

Ques. Can you ever be your father? Ans. 
No. 

No; you will always be his son or his daugh¬ 
ter. When God made the world and the Four 
Kingdoms of Life, He put His life, work, mind, 
and wisdom into His creations, but He did not 
lose Himself in His creations, nor did He be- 
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98 PSYCHOLOGY FOR THE YOUNG 

come any less than He was before. God will 
always be God, just as you will always be His 
child. All the things and peoples together that 
God has made can never be God. He will ever 
be distinct, yet not separate from His creations. 
Just as you will always be you, and your boat 
will always remain your boat. You cannot be 
the thing that you make; you must always re¬ 
main distinct from it. 

Ques. What have you put into the boat that 
is like you? Ans . Your work, and your 
thought. 

Ques. What have we in us that is like God? 
Ans. His Spirit, His Life, His Power, etc. 

Yes; like Him, but not Him. 

Ques. Would you say that a drop of water 
could be the ocean? Ans. No. 

Well, neither you nor I can ever be God. The 
same kind of water is in the drop as in the 
ocean. The same life, love, spirit, etc., is in you 
as in God. We are in-cluded in Him. The 
part cannot contain the whole; but the whole 
includes the parts. 

(Place the initials of each child in the por¬ 
tions of the circle, and prove to them that the 
whole circle could not be put into one of its 
parts; but that each part is included in the 
whole. The same Spirit in all.) 

The number 100 cannot be contained in the 


GOD'S DELATIONS 99 

number 10, but 10 is included in 100. Illustrate 
with the hand the following: 

Ques. Do you remem¬ 
ber the illustration of 
the hand; the same 
blood flowing thru the 
palm, and the fingers? 

Ans. Yes. 

Ques. Well, does the 
palm ever become a fin¬ 
ger? Ans. No. 

Ques . Does the little 
finger ever become the thumb? Ans . No. 

Ques. Is each finger included in the hand? 
Ans. Yes. 

Ques. Is each finger distinct from the other, 
and the fingers from the palm? Ans. Yes. 

Ques. Will the palm remain distinct from 
the fingers? Ans. Yes. 

Ques. Well, would you have a perfect hand 
if one finger was gone? Ans. No. 

Ques. Then, can you not see how necessary 
the palm is to the fingers; the fingers to the 
palm; each finger to the others; and how all to¬ 
gether, fingers and palm, complete the hand? 
Ans. Yes. 

Ques. Yet, are they not all distinct, without 
being separated? Ans. Yes. 

Now, you can understand how God ever re- 



100 ‘PSYCHOLOGY FOR THE YOUNG 


mains distinct, but is not separated from any 
one of His children for a single moment. He is 
always our Father, and we always remain His 
children. His Spirit flows through each one of 
us as the blood flows through each finger of the 
hand. His power is our power; His life is our 
life; His love is our love, etc. 

Ques. Can you tell me how near God is? 
Ans. His life is in everything and everybody. 

Yes; we breathe His life; we think with His 
mind; we are in Him always; we could not live 
without Him, any more than the fingers could 
live apart from the hand. (Employ other 
illustrations if preferred; such as: The vine 
and its branches; The human body and its mem¬ 
bers; The Class and its members, etc.) 


Golden text: “I am the vine, ye are the 
branches: He that abideth in me, and I in him, 
the same bringeth forth much fruit: for with¬ 
out me ye can do nothing.”—John. 15:5. 



LESSON NO. 21 


THE REALITY OF THE SENSES 

Ques. Can anyone name the Five Senses? 
Ans. Seeing, hearing, tasting, smelling and 
touching. 

Ques. Who is it that sees, hears, tastes, 
smells, and touches. Ans. I. 

Yes; I (spirit) see something, taste some¬ 
thing, etc. 

Ques. Could you see if you were blind? 
Ans. No. 

Ques. Why? Ans. Because there would be 
no organ to see through. 

While I am talking to you, I am expressing 
myself (spirit). You hear me, and you are be¬ 
ing impressed with what I have to say. 

Ques. How do you know what I am saying? 
Ans. By hearing it. 

Yes; you (spirit) hear it. You have a sense 
of hearing. 

Ques. If you were deaf could you hear it? 
Ans. No. 

You see, when we press out our thoughts, we 
ex-press them; but when we see, hear, taste, 
smell or feel, we are being im-pressed (pressed 
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102 PSYCHOLOGY FOR THE YOUNG 

upon). To ex-press means to give out; to be 
im-pressed means to take in. 

Ques. Did yon ever notice how yon can make 
impressions upon mud, clay or sand by press¬ 
ing some object upon them? Ans. Yes. 

Then, you have found that the mud, clay or 
sand receives the impression, or is impressed. 
This is the same thing that occurs when we 
(spirit) hear music. The music is impressed 
upon our minds, thru the sense of hearing. 

Ques. How do we know that the world is 
beautiful? Ans. Because we can see it. 

Yes; we are impressed by its beauty through 
the sense of sight. 

Ques. How can you tell when anything is 
soft, hard, rough or smooth? Ans. By touch. 

Yes; you receive a knowledge of its quality 
through a sense of touch. (Continue examples 
until each sense has been explained.) Now, we 
understand that Spirit ex-pressed or presses it¬ 
self out from the inside, and that it is im-pressed 
or pressed upon from the outside. 

Ques. For what do we have the Five Senses? 
Ans. To hear, see, taste, smell and feel with. 

Ques. Do you know more about a piece of 
music after you have heard it? 

Ques. Do you know more about a beautiful 
doll after you have seen it? 


THE REALITY OF THE SENSES 103 


Ques. Do yon know more about candy when 
you have tasted it? 

Ques. Do you know more about a lovely 
bouquet after you have smelt it? 

Ques. Do you know more about a piece of 
silk when you have touched it? 

Ques. Are you im-pressed by these things 
through the Five Senses? Ans. Yes. 

Let us remember then, that we receive knowl¬ 
edge (impressions) of the world and things out¬ 
side of ourselves through the Five Senses. 

Now, we shall learn how this is, and why we 
do not hear, see, taste, touch and smell many 
things that are around us. 

Ques. Do you remember what the meaning 
of vibration is ? Ans . Motion. 

Yes; Well, sound is a vibration of the Ether. 

Ques. What is Ether? Ans. Electric 
Force. 

This electric force moves at a certain rate 
of motion, and we have sound as a result. Our 
ears can hear these sounds up to a certain pitch, 
but beyond that, there are sounds that our 
physical ears cannot hear. These sounds are 
heard by the people of the spiritual world, be¬ 
cause they have finer bodies with finer senses. 
There is sound everywhere because there is 
motion, and vibration everywhere, but we do 


104 PSYCHOLOGY FOR THE YOUNG 


not, or cannot, hear all sounds, because our finer 
organs of sense are not developed. 

Ques. Have you ever seen the wax-disk used 
on Victrolas? Ans. Yes. 

Well, that wax-disk, like the clay, mud, and 
sand, receives the im-pression or sound of the 
human voice, or instrument, and we have what 
is called a record. We (like the disk) receive 
sound impression from the outside, and they 
make an impression upon our minds. We can¬ 
not receive impressions from the finer worlds 
of matter, without training, because the vibra¬ 
tions (motion) of these worlds are too rapid; 
but we have finer senses, and when we enter a 
finer world we shall immediately use them. 
The highest vibration of color that we can see 
with the physical eye is violet. But there are 
many more exquisite colors beyond this that we 
cannot see. The lowest vibration of color is 
red; yet there are still lower vibrations of color 
that are too slow for us to see. 

We must not forget that life is everywhere, 
in all worlds, so motion must be everywhere, in 
all worlds. Law is the same thing throughout 
God’s Universe. So now you understand why 
we have organs, that we may receive impres¬ 
sions from the world about us, and know things. 

What you are is one thing and what you see, 
hear, taste, smell and feel is something else. 


THE REALITY OF THE SENSES 105 


Ques. How do you know that your mother 
loves you? Ans. Be¬ 
cause you feel it. 

Yes; you do not feel 
it with your fingers, but 
you have an Inner feel¬ 
ing that she loves you; 
this is an inner sense. 

You feel happy, or sad; 
sick or well, angry or 
peaceful. All of these 
feelings are inner senses. So we have two sets 
of senses, the inner, and the outer. All things 
impressed upon us from the world around us or 
the world of objects are outer; things or feel¬ 
ings impressed upon us from the inside are 
inner. We shall always have senses to corre¬ 
spond with every world, else we could not know 
what is outside ourselves without organs of 
sense, through which to receive impressions. 


Golden text: “Who hath ears to hear, let him 
hear.” — Matt. 13: 9. 





LESSON NO 22 


experience: its meaning 


Ques. 

What 

is ex-pression? 

Ans. 

Press- 

ing out. 
Ques. 

What 

is im-pression? 

Ans. 

To be 


pressed upon. 

Ques. Yes; do you notice that both of these 
words are terms denoting action? Ans. Yes. 

To press out is to act; To be pressed upon is 
to be acted upon. 

Ques. What does action signify? Ans. Life. 

We are alive; and every moment we express 
ourselves, and every moment we are being im¬ 
pressed. Pressing out, and being pressed upon, 
by something. This action is life; this giving 
out, and taking in, is what fills up the whole day, 
so we call this ceaseless action, living. Let us 
see if this is not true. 

Ques. How do you express yourself? Ans. 
By thoughts, words, and actions. 

Yes; you press out your thoughts into words 
and actions. 

Ques. By what are you impressed? Ans. 

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EXPERIENCE: ITS MEANING 107 


By other persons’ thoughts, words, and acts, and 
also, by everything sensed, both inner and outer. 

Yes; this is how you know that you are alive. 

Ques. Can you ever die? Ans. No. 

Then, you shall always express yourself, and 
shall always be impressed. 

Ques. What does it mean to experience any¬ 
thing? Ans . To live through it and sense it. 

Yes; to express and to be impressed is to have 
experience. 

Ques. When you have lived through an ex¬ 
perience, do you know more about that partic¬ 
ular thing? Ans. Yes. 

Then we really only know things after we 
have lived (experienced) through them. 

Ques. How do you learn your arithmetic les¬ 
son? Ans. By study. 

Yes; by expressing (study) yourself, and also 
by being impressed by your teacher. This is to 
know your lesson. You have had the experi¬ 
ence of expression and impression. 

Ques. How do you know how to build a 
wagon ? Ans. By building it. 

Yes; by experience. 

Ques. Could you tell me how to build a boat ? 
Ans. Yes. 

Then, you really have built one. 

Ques. Do you really know how to do any¬ 
thing unless we have done it? Ans. No. 


108 PSYCHOLOGY FOR THE YOUNG 

Ques. Then, what is experience for? Ans. 
For knowledge. 

Ques . Are we ever going to know every¬ 
thing? Ans. Yes. 

Ques. How? Ans. By experience. 

Then, we shall have all experience if we are 
to become perfect, and have all knowledge. We 
shall live forever, and continually express our¬ 
selves, and forever be impressed. 

Ques. Suppose I wish to have the experience 
of walking down the street, what must I do? 
Ans. Walk. 

Yes; I must act. 

Ques. What happens to me as I walk? Ans. 
I receive impressions from things and persons 
about me. 

Ques. What are impressions? Ans. Things 
heard, felt, seen, smelt, touched or tasted. 

Let us suppose that I see a crowd of boys 
playing a game. I hear them shout as I con¬ 
tinue to walk, I smell the fragrance of beautiful 
flowers, I see beautiful homes, birds, trees, gar¬ 
dens, and I feel the soft breeze against my face. 

Ques. What are all these things that I sense? 
Ans. Impressions from the world of objects. 

They are pressing themselves upon my mind. 
So you see, I have had the experience of walk¬ 
ing down the street by acting (expressing) and 
by being acted (impressed) upon. 


EXPERIENCE: ITS MEANING 109 


Now, that we know that onr experiences come 
to us very largely through our own actions, let 
us be very careful that our actions are good, so 
that our experience may be good also. (Pro¬ 
vide other illustrations.) 


Golden text: “Wisdom is the principal thing; 
therefore get wisdom; and with all thy getting 
get understanding ” — Pro. 4:7< 



LESSON NO. 23 


MENTAL ATMOSPHERE 

Ques. What is the atmosphere? Ans. The 
air that we breathe. 

Ques. Is the atmosphere a unit (one thing) ? 
Ans. Yes. 

Yes; we all breathe the same atmosphere; we 
draw it in (in-hale it) and it passes through the 
lungs, filling them with fresh air, and driving 
out all poisonous air each time we breathe out 
(ex-hale). Just as we open the windows and 
doors to clear the room of smoke or any dis¬ 
agreeable odor. When the room is filled with 
fresh air, the bad air has disappeared. 

Ques. Is the air that we breathe always 
fresh? Ans. No. 

No indeed. Sometimes we find ourselves in 
a train or a street car that is filled with smoke 
or very bad odors, and we are obliged to breathe 
in (in-hale) it. How good it feels to get out of 
the car and draw in deep breaths of fine, clear 
air! 

Ques. What would happen to us if we had 
to breathe foul odors, and smoky atmosphere 
no 


MENTAL ATMOSPHERE 111 

all the time? Ans. Our lungs would be filled 
with poison. 

We all know that if the blood is pure, the 
body will remain perfectly well. The body 
must have plenty of oxygen. We get it from 
our food, our drink, and from the air that we 
breathe. 

Ques. Could a person live in a tiny closet 
many days? Ans. No. 

Ques. Why? Ans. Because he would soon 
have breathed in all of the pure air in the closet, 
and have breathed out all of the poisonous air 
from his lungs until nothing but poisonous air 
remained to breathe. This would soon make 
him sick and he could not live without more 
oxygen. Plenty of oxygen will drive out all 
poison from the lungs. 

Ques. Can you not see how important fresh 
air is? Ans. Yes. 

Ques. Does fresh air build up the body? 
Ans. Yes. 

Ques. What does poisonous air do to it? 
Ans. Tear it down. 

Then, fresh air is constructive; and poison¬ 
ous air is destructive. Now we are going to 
learn about the Mental Atmosphere, which we 
all in-hale and ex-hale into our minds. 

Ques. Is mind a unit? Ans. Yes. 


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Then Mental Atmosphere, like ordinary at¬ 
mosphere, is also a unit. 

Ques . Is everybody thinking? Ans. Yes. 

Ques. Is everybody thinking good, kind, lov¬ 
ing thoughts? Ans. No. 

Ques. Why? Ans. Because many people 
do not know how, and some do not wish to. 

Let us see what is happening to the Mental 
Atmosphere as everybody thinks. You see we 
do not all think true, good thoughts, so the 
atmosphere is not perfectly pure. Unkind, un¬ 
true, mean, discouraged, selfish thoughts, which 
we ex-hale (breathe out) as we think, are poi¬ 
soning the atmosphere, and some people, who 
think the same kind of thoughts (because like 
attracts like), breathe in this poison and soon 
their minds are filled with poisonous thoughts, 
and their mental atmosphere is very poisonous 
(destructive). Their thoughts make them sick 
just as poisonous air would make them sick. 

Ques. Suppose the Mental Atmosphere was 
filled with kind, loving, generous thoughts, 
and everybody inhaled and exhaled only such 
thoughts, would anybody ever be sick, unhappy, 
or poor? Ans. No. 

Ques. Why? Ans. Because such thoughts 
are constructive; They are God’s thoughts and 
they purify the atmosphere. They are like the 
oxygen, driving out all poison. 


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Qnes. Is it our duty to breathe out only 
good, true thoughts into the Mental Atmos¬ 
phere. Ans. Yes. 

Ques. Why? Ans. Because we know how, 
and because we wish to attract good, pure, 
thoughts. If we sow these thoughts we shall 
reap the same kind. We shall be happy, rich, 
well and successful if we think only Construc¬ 
tive thoughts, and we thus help to purify the 
atmosphere for others to breathe. 

Ques. Suppose someone tried to poison your 
atmosphere by telling you that God is evil in¬ 
stead of good; that evil is All; that sickness, 
pain, and poverty come from God; that to hate 
everybody is the only way to get what you want, 
and that the cruelest man on earth would finally 
rule it, etc. How would you feel if you be¬ 
lieved it? Ans. Perfectly miserable. 

Ques. Why? Ans. Because it is poison. 

Yes; it is false, and falsehood is poisonous to 
the person who breathes it; it makes him sick, 
discouraged, and miserable. 

Ques. What is the proper thing for us to do 
when anyone says a false thing to us, even 
though they may believe it to be true? Ans. 
Quietly speak or think the truth. 

Yes; we know what is true about ourselves, 
and about God, and nobody can poison our 
atmosphere. Let us remember that thoughts 


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create; because God’s creative thought-power 
is in us. So every thought, good or bad, sent 
out into the atmosphere supplies either oxygen 
or poison to someone else. Plenty of true, lov¬ 
ing thoughts will purify the Mental Atmosphere. 

Golden text: “Deliver me not over unto the 
will of mine enemies; for false witnesses are 
risen up against me, and such as breathe out 
cruelty—Ps . 27:12. 



LESSON NO. 24 


cosmic urge: desire 

Ques. What does it mean to desire anything? 
Ans. To want something 
Yes; To desire is to want. 

Ques. Does everybody want something? 
Ans. Yes. 

Ques . Name some of the things that you 
want. 

Ques. Did you ever want anything bad? 
Ans. No. 

No indeed, everybody is seeking only his own 
good. 

Ques. Did you ever receive anything you 
desired which proved to be bad for you? Ans. 
Yes. 

For instance, you have wanted a whole box 
of candy, all for yourself , and after receiving 
it you ate it, all yourself, and it made you ill. 

Ques. Did it prove to be good for you? 
Ans. No. 

Ques. What was wrong? The candy was 
all right, and your desire for it was not wrong; 
where did the wrong come in ? Ans. Through 
overeating and selfishness. 

Yes; you see, you made the wrong; you were 

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the cause of your suffering. God is good. He 
sends only good, but we make mistakes. 

Ques. Who is seeking expression through 
us? Ans. God. 

Yes; God is expressing His life, love, wisdom, 
power and desire for fuller and fuller life 
through us. This is why we have desires. It 
is God in us who is seeking expression. This, 
too, is why we want only good. 

Ques . Would you ever receive anything 
worth having if you did not desire it? Ans. 
No. 

Ques. Could you acquire an education with¬ 
out a desire for it, and the desire to study? 
Ans. No. 

Then desire is what causes you to act. 

Ques. Action expresses what? Ans. Life. 

Ques. Is it wrong then to desire things? 
Ans. No. 

No; the only way to avoid any wrong is to 
desire good for yourself and for others. 

Ques. Is it wrong to desire the things that 
belong to others ? Ans. Yes. 

Ques. Why? Ans. Because it is selfish, 
and we should love others as ourselves. 

You may have all the good that you can re¬ 
ceive, without desiring the things of others. 
God loves us all alike. He lives in each one of 
us. 


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Ques. Do you remember how to increase the 
things that you have? Ans. By sharing them 
with others. 

Yes; plant love and you shall reap love. 
“Give and it shall be given unto you.” You 
see, we increase what we have by giving it out; 
by giving it expression; by planting it. 

Ques . What have you to give? 

If you know something that would help some¬ 
one, tell them of it! If you have a box of 
candy, share it, etc. In this way you will see 
how happy you can be by making others happy. 
This is God’s law of love. God is Love, and 
if we love enough, we shall never be without the 
things that we need. God can only bless us 
through love. When we hate, it shuts Him 
away from us, because hate creates hate; love 
creates love. Blessings come with love; not 
with hate. 

Ques. Does your mother give you things be¬ 
cause she hates you? Ans. No. 

If everybody is seeking his own good; then, 
thieves and murderers must be seeking their 
own good, too. The man who steals is desiring 
his own good (happiness) but he is making a 
mistake. He thinks he will be happier if he can 
have a certain thing that belongs to someone 
else; or, he is in need of money, and does not 
know that God is love, and will supply all of 


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his needs if He will trust Him, and be kind and 
loving while seeking work. So his desire is for 
good, but his manner (way) of obtaining it is 
wrong. 

Ques. Suppose you want friends, do you 
steal your friend’s jack-knife at the first oppor¬ 
tunity; is that the way to make friends? Ans. 
No. 

Ques. Is it love? Ans. No. 

Ques. Do you know what Christ called the 
Golden Rule? Ans. “Do unto others as you 
would they should do unto you.” 

This is the greatest rule (law) of God. Can 
you do it? Can you be kind to all your little 
school mates, and your neighbors, and to every¬ 
one you meet? If you can, and will try, Love 
(God) will supply everything that you desire. 

Ques. Can we trust this Golden Rule to bring 
us blessings? Ans. Yes. 

Ques. Why? Ans. Because it is the law of 
God. 

Ques. Do God’s laws change? Ans. No. 

Then, no matter how people treat you, if you 
continue to love them, God will always bless 
you, for He is Love. 


Golden text: <( But seek ye first the kingdom 
of God, and His righteousness; and all these 
things shall be added unto you.” — Matt. 6:33. 



LESSON NO. 25 


PRACTICAL. USE OF THE SUBJECTIVE MIND 

We learned in a previous lesson that mind has 
two parts (functions). They are the Objective 
and the Subjective. 

Ques. Do you remember what part is ob¬ 
jective ? Ans. The part that takes note of ob¬ 
jects, and which we use when we are awake. 

Ques. And which is subjective? Ans. The 
part which is subject to the objective mind, and 
which works even while we sleep. 

We have learned that Mind is one of God’s 
qualities, so it is in everything and everywhere. 
A mental Atmosphere. This mind that we call 
the Subjective is in the Mineral, Vegetable, 
Animal and Human kingdoms of life. It is the 
Mind that directs the healing power of God 
which instantly rushes to heal a wound or gash 
in a tree; a wound or broken limb of an animal; 
and it also is the mind that heals us of our sick¬ 
nesses. The instant that a tree is gashed or a 
limb torn off, this Subjective mind (God’s 
mind) directs the healing power to heal the 
wound, and in a few days the wound is seared 
over. You see, the healing power is in every 

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atom of the tree, all the time. It is the Con¬ 
structive power of God. It is what makes the 
tree and animal grow. This is also what occurs 
when an animal is wounded; the Subjective ac¬ 
tion of the mind directs the healing power 
(which is in the atoms) and it makes haste to 
heal the wound. 

Ques. If this is true of the lower kingdoms, 
is it not true of us? Ans. Yes. 

Ques. Why? Ans. Because God’s mind 
and life are everywhere. 

Yes, the same mind power is in all, and when 
we are ill, the Subjective Mind directs the heal¬ 
ing power in the body to heal us. 

Ques. Why is it that some people remain ill 
for years and years? Ans. Because they 
think of sickness continually, and are afraid of 
it. 

Yes; you see, to think is to create; and their 
fear thoughts, and discouraged thoughts im¬ 
press the subjective mind, and it obeys their 
thought. 

Ques. Why does the Subjective Mind obey 
the Objective Mind? Ans. Because it is sub¬ 
ject to it. 

Yes, it must obey. 

Can you not see, that because trees and 
animals are not afraid , they recover much more 
quickly; because the healing power is not inter- 


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fered with? The lower kingdoms of life wait 
for the healing; it starts to take place the mo¬ 
ment that it is needed. 

Ques. Do you not think that we, who know 
so much more than the animals, should be 
ashamed to be afraid, when we know that God is 
All, and in All? Ans. Yes. 

This wonderful Subjective mind built your 
body, and before you could use your mind, it 
took perfect care of you even as it does now, 
day and night. If you want to assist it to keep 
you well and strong, you have only to think 
thoughts of health, strength, kindness and love. 

Ques. Does thought go immediately where it 
is sent? Ans. Yes. 

Then, if you wish to heal a friend who is sick, 
you need only to think thoughts of health, 
strength, and harmony for him. Think of him 
as well, strong, and perfect as God made him. 
This will help to impress his Subjective Mind, 
and assist the healing power of God. (Try to 
convey to the children that the healing power or 
the Constructive power of God (nature) always 
existed, and that we, by our thought, retard or 
accelerate its action). Think the Truth-Table 
about your friend, and your thought must reach 
him, for it is more powerful than electricity. 

Ques. Why does thought create ? Ans. Be¬ 
cause it is God’s power. 


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Yes; this Subjective Mind creates for you 
every moment, because it cannot stop. It is the 
action of God. It will create whatever you 
think about. 

Ques. Suppose you desire something, what 
do you do first? Ans. Think about it. 

Yes; well, the moment you start to think in¬ 
tently about it, the creative action of the Sub¬ 
jective Mind begins to attract it to you. If you 
continue to think of it, and work toward it, it 
will finally be created for you. This is God’s 
law. The action of the mind creates the form 
(object) by the attraction of atoms. Your 
thought starts the motion, and the motion at¬ 
tracts the atoms. 

Ques. Suppose you desire to have an auto¬ 
mobile, what should you do? Ans. Think 
about it. 

Yes; imagine yourself riding out with your 
parents, and friends, in an automobile. Hold 
this picture in your mind continually. As you 
think about this picture, the action of the Sub¬ 
jective Mind starts to attract the conditions 
that will make it possible for you to have the 
automobile, if you have faith in the law to 
hold it constantly in mind, believing that you 
have it already, in the spirit. 

Do not be afraid, but trust it, because it is the 
same law that makes corn grow in the ground 


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123 


after the seed is planted. Yon have planted 
your picture in the Ether, and it will grow, just 
as your seed in the ground grows. In fact it 
cannot help but do so. 

Ques. You do not pull up your seed every 
day to see if it is growing do you? Ans. No. 

Well, then, you must not change your picture 
every day either, or grow tired of thinking 
about it, for it must have time to grow. No 
matter what happens, hold your picture in your 
mind, knowing that it is perfect in the Spirit, 
but you cannot see it until it has taken on form. 
The Subjective Mind creates the form, just as 
it created your form, which always was in the 
spirit. If you will be loving, kind, and friendly 
to everyone, God will give you every good thing. 

Ques. Will the Subjective Mind create 
things which we do not want? Ans. Yes. 

Ques. Why? Ans. Because it must obey 
the Objective Mind. 

Then you must be very careful not to think 
of the things we do not want because we shall 
surely get them, because mind creates forms. 
Never give a thought to that which we do not 
want. Just love others as you do yourself, and 
desire good things for them also. This is God’s 
law of Love. 


Golden text: “A good man out of the good 



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treasure of his heart bringeth forth that which 
is good; and an evil man out of the evil treasure 
of his heart bringeth forth that which is evil.” 
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